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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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quotistI have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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