I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
#quotes #franco-nero #eating

For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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