Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Quotes to Explore
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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I honestly can't pick a favorite person I like to work with - that would be like choosing a favorite child!
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I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.
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I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.
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Once I tried to find myself as a musician and a composer, I went back and saw that there was something special about Puerto Rican music. I knew that before, but had never sat down and thought about it. The more I learned about it, the more it found its way into the music I was writing.
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Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
