I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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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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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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