I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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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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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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My whole life has been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it. ~Tony Fernandes
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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