I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French 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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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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I make the girls jump like I am Kris Kross. ~Nicki Minaj
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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