Gabriel Luna Quotes
The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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You need to have a secure Israel, which is very clear, and you need to have a Palestinian community that feels it can have hope.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
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After graduating college, I finally allowed myself to strive for what I loved to do, even if there were no guarantees that I would be able to make a living off of acting. This, combined with my life experiences prior - like stars aligning - led me to this lovely role of Katana within the DC Comics universe.
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When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
