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Baltasar Gracian Quotes

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Baltasar Gracian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: spanish
Birth: January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658

Topics

Lie Sleep Better Things Awake Than

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Jessica Valenti

Women Best People Things Incredible

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Battle Enlightenment Doubt Illusion

Whether it's in America, Quebec, or France, if I can tell a story that takes me out of my comfort zone, then I'm surfing.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Me Comfort Zone Story America I Can

With more and more stress from work, at times I really do hope to have someone I can lean upon.

Work Hope Stress Someone I Can More

I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications. I can write fantasy without thinking as much. I like to balance things out: a certain amount of fantasy and a certain amount of science fiction.

Science Time Balance Thinking Find

We're a very close family. Nothing changes.

Family Nothing Changes Close Very

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Age Born I Was Born Twelve Lot MGM

You never know what's going on in someone else's life and that you can't always understand how what you say or what you do - no matter how big or small it may seem to you, it could be the end of the world for someone else.

Life World Small End Someone You

A lot of people are blowing Shogun's fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back.

Fight People Back Early First Out

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

Myself Free Process Logic Back Away

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

Collaboration Ambition Long Meet Why

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

Life Me Rest My Life Talents Taught

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