If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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