To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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