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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosIf his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
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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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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
#quotes #paul-michael-glaser #70s #past #movies
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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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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