I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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