Baltasar Gracian Quotes
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
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What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
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I remember being on Atonement and it felt very right to be there. There was so much excitement every day. I remember very vividly how it felt to be a child on a film set, and that is actually really important to hold on to for as long as you continue to make films.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.
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There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
