I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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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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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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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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