I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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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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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here is a little tip Howard; cut back on the Red Bull. ~David Letterman
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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