A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African 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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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~David Ogilvy
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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