"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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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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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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