I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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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
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, "I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change." Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so. ~Joss Whedon
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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