In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did; I just wanted to do it. ~B.o.B
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish 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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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese 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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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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