The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~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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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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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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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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