A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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