Jose Bergamin Quotes
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
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I don't want to repeat my mistakes.
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Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.
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Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
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I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.
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To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
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A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.
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Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
