When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin 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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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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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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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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