I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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I held hands with her all the time; that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were. ~J. D. Salinger
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
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