Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. ~Charles XII of Sweden
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese 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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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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