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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosSince the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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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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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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