The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish 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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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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