A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it! ~Estelle
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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