I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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