One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. ~Gisele Bundchen
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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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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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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