Baltasar Gracian Quotes
You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.
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I love working the legislative process.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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I learned at a very young age how to be simplistic and sincere.
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You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.
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You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.
