You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
#quotes #lucinda-williams #past #music

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). ~Ibrahim Rugova
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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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
#quotes #geraldine-brooks #books #past

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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