No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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