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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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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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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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.
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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.
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If I'm a fan, I'm a fan for life.
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When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.
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Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
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When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
