Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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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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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush. ~Roger Stone
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English 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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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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