If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. ~Ray Toro
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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