I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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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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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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