Baltasar Gracian Quotes
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.Baltasar Gracian
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
Bai Ling -
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo -
It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
Yani Tseng -
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
Gabriel Macht -
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie -
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
Samuel Alexander
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Politics is a good thing!
Larry J. Sabato -
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
Gary Numan -
I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
Tahar Rahim -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Ed Markey -
I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
Kate McKinnon
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
Dan Pink -
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
Indra Devi -
I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
Najib Mikati -
I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
M. J. Rose -
I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.
David Coverdale Whitesnake
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'We remind our churches to maintain the emphasis on the war against indecent dressing'
Peter Akinola -
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
Peter Ustinov -
I focus on different parts of the body on different days. It's usually high-intensity circuits and a lot of body weight stuff.
Cole Sprouse -
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
Nelson Goodman -
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Baltasar Gracian