I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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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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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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