I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. ~Bill Wyman
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese 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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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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