A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese 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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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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