My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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