The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right. ~Justin Bieber
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
#quotes #derek-jeter #humor

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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