The support in Britain made a big difference. ~Louise Woodward
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #life #time #age

If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #gratitude

Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
#quotes #george-burns #smoking

A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #stupidity #women #men

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
#quotes #bill-murray #entertainment #movies

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
#quotes #roy-ayers #new-york

He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-proverbs #hardship

Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
#quotes #julie-newmar #manners

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
#quotes #germaine-greer #women #men #talking

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #death #equality

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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