When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want success, be unique. ~Natalie Massenet
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's "China Beach," "The West Wing," or "E.R." ~Michael Cudlitz
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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