A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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