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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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
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Every family has that secret. Every family has that thing where you go, 'Shhh, shhh, shhh.'
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
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The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
