Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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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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An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.
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Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph.
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As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.
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Advice? Look at your pay statements.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
