At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
#quotes #robert-zemeckis #art #thinking

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. ~Dana Perino
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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