Baldassare Castiglione Quotes
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
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Plainly plenty of work was waiting to be done. The question was: would the State Department do it? I proposed to have a shot at finding out.
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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
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Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.
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If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
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Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
