Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.
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I'm the king of debt.
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I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.
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I do watch what I eat, but I don't make it myself. When I eat out, I just have to make sure the things I buy are good and healthy.
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I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
