You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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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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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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