One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi 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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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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I am a big horror fan. I am a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make. ~Amber Heard
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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