Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.
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My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.
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I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
