Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
#quotes #matt-reeves #childhood

I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
#quotes #martin-van-buren #trust

The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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