I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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It is objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last. ~Quint Studer
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish 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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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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