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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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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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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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
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Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.
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I'm having the time of my life. I've never looked forward to going to work so much every day. I'm loving it; it's great. It's what I love to do and I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
