I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
#quotes #stephen-rea #people

Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. ~Eoin Colfer
#quotes #eoin-colfer #law

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
#quotes #thurston-moore #radio

I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
#quotes #phylicia-rashad #happiness

The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
#quotes #j-r-r-tolkien #love #inspiration #darkness

Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
#quotes #ray-kurzweil #intelligence #simplicity #complexity

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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