I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
#quotes #barack-obama #politics

I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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