You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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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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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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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
#quotes #barney-frank #displacement

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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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
#quotes #tom-hanks #50s #generation

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. ~Brian Austin Green
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. ~Gisele Bundchen
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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