All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
#quotes #tom-hanks #50s #generation

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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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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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
#quotes #katherine-jenkins #mistakes #music

The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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