There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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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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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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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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