When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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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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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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