In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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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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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. ~Gisele Bundchen
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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