If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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If you want success, be unique. ~Natalie Massenet
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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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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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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