Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. ~Steve Waugh
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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