Jose Carreras Quotes
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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We are what we believe we are.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.
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Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
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The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.
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When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.
