Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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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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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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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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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I don't always have to be the best. Things don't always have to be perfect.
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We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
