Baltasar Gracian Quotes
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
Quotes to Explore
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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I want to win football games.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
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It's best to keep acting real.
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I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.
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I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
