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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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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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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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination...
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I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.
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Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.
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Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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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.
