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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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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I'm the glue that holds everything together.
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Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.
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I would remind you...that Socrates was executed not for saying what things were or should be, but for seeking practical indications of where some reasonable approximation of truth might be. He was executed not for his megalomania or grandiose propositions or certitudes, but for stubbornly doubting the absolute truths of others.
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We can be in the studio with the hottest producer, but we might not be able to create any magic! It's not about the hottest. It's about who we feel we have that connection with, and that's who we're going to be working with.
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Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
