I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). ~Ibrahim Rugova
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene. ~Grimes
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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