I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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Atrial fibrillation can be taken care of. The point is that it is manageable. Everybody is different and will have different ways of managing whatever they need, and their doctor will have ways of managing theirs. But I think the first key is just to know it exists, know whether you have it, and know what the risks are and take care of yourself! ~Howie Mandel
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life. ~Steve Wozniak
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese 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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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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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 somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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