What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish 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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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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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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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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