When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. ~Paula Creamer
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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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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