Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
#quotes #charlize-theron #travel #world #south-africa

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. ~Gisele Bundchen
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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