The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic 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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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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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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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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