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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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
