Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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