Baltasar Gracian Quotes
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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I've been an actor since I was a kid.
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Van Gaal has a good vision of football, but it is not mine. He wants to gel winning teams and has a militaristic way of working with his tactics. I want individuals to think for themselves.
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The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
