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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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish 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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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like to play music; play guitar; I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice. ~Henrik Lundqvist
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I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. ~Eoin Colfer
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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