Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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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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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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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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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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