The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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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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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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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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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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