When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful. ~Dennis Haysbert
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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