I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~Proverb
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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