Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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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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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. ~Kelly Rowland
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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