Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
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I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?
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Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when it's that way.
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Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
