Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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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.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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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.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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I have always been fascinated with romance and the fact that it is so effortless when we first fall in love but how it then becomes a conscious effort to stay creative and connected. Thats why I always say, 'Get wise: keep your romance alive.'
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It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.
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There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.
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Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.