Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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