The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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To eat off another man's plate. [To live on another's expense.] ~Juvenal
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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