I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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