You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
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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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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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