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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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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You're a product just as much. A product of a product. The people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. The minister in your church, another product. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish 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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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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