Baltasar Gracian Quotes
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.
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I change my story by changing what I believe about myself. When I clean up the lies I believe about myself, the lies I believe about other people change. Every time I change myself, my whole story changes to adapt to the new main character.
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I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.
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I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.
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I'm clean and sober.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
