Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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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
#quotes #matt-reeves #childhood

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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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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