If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself. ~Candance Bushnell
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene. ~Grimes
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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