I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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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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