Oliver Gaspirtz Quotes
Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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I just love math and most people don't.
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Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
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Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.
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I have no other balm to sweeten the bitterness of a harsh and melancholy life than the satisfaction given by the conviction of having always done what I believed to be my duty. God grant that I can say the same at the hour of my death.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
