Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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I watch a lot of football.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
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Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
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I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
