A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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