Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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