Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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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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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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