War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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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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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
#quotes #gary-busey #existence

An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
#quotes #isaac-watts #poetry

I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
#quotes #emily-mortimer #life #optimism #difficulty

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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