Baltasar Gracian Quotes
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.
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I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.
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The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.
