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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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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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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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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