Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
