I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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