Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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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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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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It is my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown. ~Tom Colicchio
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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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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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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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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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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