Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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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

Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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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
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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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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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
#quotes #henrik-ibsen #human #believe #books #thinking

He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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