Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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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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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
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TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes takes people who are established. The great benefit of not breaking in yet is purity of voice.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
