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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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quotistI mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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