Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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They're likely to win, because the courts are increasingly interpreting advertising speech as something that's covered by the First Amendment.
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A man lives so many different lengths of time. And each one has its own end.
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Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
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My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
