It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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