To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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