I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~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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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
#quotes #patricia-marx #weeping #stupidity

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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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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