A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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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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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
#quotes #terry-gilliam #movies

All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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