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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosA good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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