I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
#quotes #richard-rodgers #theater

A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
#quotes #kevin-connolly #life #family

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
#quotes #philip-green #business

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #time #age

If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
#quotes #bono #united-states

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
#quotes #samuel-adams #power #law #king #prince

People are cooking less but obsessing about it more. ~Dougie Poynter
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#eating #cooking #obsession

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
#quotes #bernadette-devlin #politics #sacrifice

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
#quotes #paul-ryan #taxation

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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