Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.Baltasar Gracian
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
Daisy Donovan -
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
Natalie Cole -
I waited for my first kiss.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
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.
Wale -
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
Octavia E. Butler -
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.
R. Kelly
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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.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
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.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
Dan Fogelberg -
'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.
Edmund White -
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.
Dan Gilbert -
There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
Dan Brown
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
Saku Koivu -
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.
Kajol -
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.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
Maisie Williams -
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.
Dan Hawkins -
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.
Felix Dennis
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
Edith Stein -
Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
Edith Head -
In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them. ... What is to-day obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art. ... the opposition to man's true nature as man.
Karl Jaspers -
I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'
Elaine Welteroth -
Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
Langston Hughes -
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian