Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.
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The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.
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A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
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I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
