When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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