Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes
The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
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My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.
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Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
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Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
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I would like to own a dog in the future. I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process.
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Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.
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I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.
