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“You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams.”
Source : Dara Torres, Elizabeth Weil (2009). “Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life”, p.3, Three Rivers Press
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“the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.”
Source : L. T. Meade (2016). “The Honorable Miss: Children's Fiction”, p.201, VM eBooks
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“Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.”
Source : "Johnny Knoxville's house of pain" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.
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“The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.”
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“If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.”
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“That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of”
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“There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corner of one’s heart- there has to be a song. Like a cool, clear drink of water and like the gentle warmth of sunshine, and like the tender love of a child, there has to be a song!”