There will be many times in your lives; at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up; when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed. ~Julie Andrews
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further. ~Donald Glover
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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