Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
#quotes #lydia-davis #russell-edson #style #writing #stories

I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
#quotes #david-lloyd #art #hope #reality

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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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
#quotes #kerry-greenwood #helping

The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
#quotes #andrea-gibson #sorrow

I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done. ~Josh Turner
#quotes #josh-turner #christianity

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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