Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ~Anna Kournikova
#quotes #anna-kournikova #sports #theatre #tennis

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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