For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others. ~John Wooden
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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