Baltasar Gracian Quotes
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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How should we deal with intrusions of fiction into life, now that we have seen the historical impact that this phenomenon can have? … Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
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The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.
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In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.
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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
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It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
