The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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