Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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Money just draws flies.
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What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.
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Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.
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It feels as if I never get my just due.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.
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I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
