I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that. ~Freddy Adu
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy; they are coming together. There need not be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~Orhan Pamuk
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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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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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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