Baltasar Gracian Quotes
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
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At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.'
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I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.
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In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.
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You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
