We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners. ~Carol Roth
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself. ~Candance Bushnell
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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