I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
#quotes #halle-berry #search

If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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