Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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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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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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