A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. ~CJ Roberts
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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