The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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