I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. ~Bill Gates
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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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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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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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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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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