I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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