I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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I make the girls jump like I am Kris Kross. ~Nicki Minaj
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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