Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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