Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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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.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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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.

  

  Malachi Throne
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• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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  • Kids
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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.

  

  Francesca Annis
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  • Accept

• When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

  

  Kapil Dev
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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.

  

  Nader al-Masri
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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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

  

  Walton Goggins
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• I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

  

  Hansie Cronje
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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.

  

  Ursula Andress
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• I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

  

  Venus Williams
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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.

  

  Sam Harris
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• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
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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.

  

  Adam Ferrara
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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.

  

  M. Ward
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  • Work

• So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
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  • Start

• It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I am not so wonderful but that in the hour of my triumph I am frightened by my own littleness. Look you, Niafer, I had thought I would be changed when I had become a famous champion, but for all that I stand posturing here with this long sword, and am master of the hour and of the future, I remain the boy that last Thursday was tending pigs.

  

  James Branch Cabell
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• Was that, then, the way we do things? 'Not knowing'- was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?

  

  Clarice Lispector
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• As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

  

  John Cassavetes

• Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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