You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu 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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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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