As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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