Jorge Amado Quotes
I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.
Jorge Amado
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
Iggy Pop
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
Ziyi Zhang
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
Ian Mcewan
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Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
Dan Quayle
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As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
Nathaniel Kahn
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If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
Adam Cohen
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster
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Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'
Carlene Carter
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My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
Samuel Alito
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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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For I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.
Daniel Defoe
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Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that 'this present' might be 'the world's last night'; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
C. S. Lewis
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I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
Bill Gates
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The deepest thinking is humble. It is only concerned that the flame of truth which it keeps alive should burn with the strongest and purest heat; it does not trouble about the distance to which its brightness penetrates.
Albert Schweitzer
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
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Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.
Lewis Black
