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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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proverbiosA thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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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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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. ~Gisele Bundchen
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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