When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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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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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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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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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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