I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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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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Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners. ~Carol Roth
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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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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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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