I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here is a little tip Howard; cut back on the Red Bull. ~David Letterman
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. ~Paula Creamer
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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