The debate over same sex "marriage" has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. ~Elliott Abrams
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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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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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
#quotes #eddie-izzard #acting #comedy

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
#quotes #thomas-carlyle #nature #art #life #government

If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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