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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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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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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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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Mo: I miss the good old days. Smash the family! Smash the state!Sydney: What about Clarice and Toni and Raffi? D'you want to smash their family?Mo: Please, Sydney. I'm expressing an ideological conviction, not talking about real people.
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It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness.
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I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.
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Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.
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I just love the world of photography.
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
