Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
#quotes #harriette-simpson-arnow

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
#quotes #lucy-walker #entertainment

Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
#quotes #geena-davis #humor

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
#quotes #michael-scheuer #prince #osama-bin-laden #united-states

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
#proverbs #turkish-proverbs #haste

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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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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