I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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