When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right. ~Justin Bieber
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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I think when it comes to botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ~Debra Winger
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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