I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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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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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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