I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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