Baltasar Gracian Quotes
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
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I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.
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Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.
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The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
