As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
#quotes #david-knopfler #trust #stories

A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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