If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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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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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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