Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
#quotes #allison-scagliotti #drama #schooling

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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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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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential; these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~Confucius
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
#quotes #james-mooney #hats

One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
#quotes #bill-laswell #music

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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