I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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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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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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All actors are looking for that role that is going to define who they are. When it happens, it is a good thing. ~Jeffrey Pierce
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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