Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush. ~Roger Stone
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
#quotes #haylie-duff #family #cooking #pizza

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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