If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
#quotes #charlize-theron #travel #world #south-africa

Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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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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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
#quotes #paul-merton #teaching

Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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