Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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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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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I try to do my best.
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People think I am dead because they haven’t seen me around for awhile. I’m not dead, I’m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don’t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
