Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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