Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Quotes to Explore
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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I love bayou life.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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They had two really good teams those two years, but they've got a really good team this year. I'm hoping upstate this time they can really make a difference.
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When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.
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Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long enough to know that it won't always just come to me; sometimes I have to go get it.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
