My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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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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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
#quotes #ashley-tisdale #movies #night #thinking #imagination

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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All actors are looking for that role that is going to define who they are. When it happens, it is a good thing. ~Jeffrey Pierce
#quotes #jeffrey-pierce #movies

When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
#quotes #matt-reeves #childhood

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
#quotes #william-wilberforce #personality

Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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