What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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