Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
Larry King -
It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
Patricia Velasquez -
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman -
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
Daniel Alarcon
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
Gary Oldman -
There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy -
I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
L'Wren Scott -
People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
Ian Rush -
When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
Fran Lebowitz
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
Oscar Hijuelos -
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson -
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. Fields -
Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky
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'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.
Christopher Young -
...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.
John Calvin -
While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
Randy Neugebauer -
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Kerry Thornley -
when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.
Alice Thomas Ellis -
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian