In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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If you want success, be unique. ~Natalie Massenet
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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