Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
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I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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Let us leave behind the legacy of both colonization and communism, the tyranny of drug cartels, dictators and sham elections. A future of greater peace, security and democratic development is possible if we work together - not to maintain power, not to secure vested interest, but instead to advance the dreams of our citizens.
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What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
