I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
#quotes #john-milton #power

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
#quotes #robert-dold #dwight-d-eisenhower #republican #oil

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
#quotes #kenneth-scott-latourette #christianity #society

It is my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown. ~Tom Colicchio
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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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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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
#quotes #haruki-murakami #heart