It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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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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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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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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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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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. ~Tinker Hatfield
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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