Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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Going to the conventions, seeing the incredible amount of love that people put into their clothing, costumes, gadgetry, and art of all kinds, is a huge treat for me.
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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
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I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
