Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, "I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change." Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so. ~Joss Whedon
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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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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