The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers. ~Kim Alexis
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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