Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you? ~Cassandra Clare
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. ~Gavin de Becker
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen 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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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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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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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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