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When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.


Alexander Gordon Smith

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LAMAR ALEXANDER There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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Q'ORIANKA KILCHER Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
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NED VIZZINI ...But although the rules are vague
And widely disregarded now
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ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON I do want to welcome everyone here. Thank you,
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CAITLIN ROSE Please understand, you are not welcome here.
CARIDAD RAMOS The message is, 'You're not welcome here -- you have to go there,'
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O. S. HICKMAN Thanks for the warm welcome. Glad I finally got here,
GEORGE BUSH The first weekend in September stands for the pure zest for life. A warm welcome to Berlin!
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DALE JARRETT Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the ...
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JOSH THOMPSON When would you stop time, Mother Smith?
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ASHLEY POSTON Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
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ALBERT DAYAN At the time, when Rusty comes up to this disco, this lounge, he observes Mr. Smith, as he describes,...
ALBERT DAYAN I commend you all for being here because you want to learn further.
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DEYTH BANGER Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
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DAVID MURPHY You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you act...
BARBARA SHER Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late t...
ERALDO BANOVAC I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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DR. VINOD B. NAIR You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them eve...
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ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to you...
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ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH And if things go on as they are, in a few months the men will have cut all the trees down and that w...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Can you forgive her? Can you do that?
There was no response.
Because if you can start to f...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH No matter what precautions were taken, socks disappeared into a Bermuda Triangle for socks, a swirli...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, B...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
ALEXANDER Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen...
GORDON RAMSAY I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the...
GORDON RAMSAY I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jacket...
GORDON RAMSAY Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a n...
ZACHARY GORDON I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
ZACHARY GORDON When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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