When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ~Anna Kournikova
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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