Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
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The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
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There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.
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I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And that's what amazes me when sometimes politicians seem to forget their history. They don't look and re-learn about what has happened before. Maybe they haven't got the memory, maybe they're already too young, but you can see how we become puffed up, and how we as a nation rise so quickly if we're not careful.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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It's very human to want to make an impact, to contribute to the world. But it's hard to know the how and why. Like, 'Will my small thing make a difference?'
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Twice a week, a truck comes near my house, and two guys get out and pick up the garbage. This will disappear. There will still be a truck coming, but it will be driven autonomously, and the garbage will be picked up autonomously, and those jobs will be gone.
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Governments are not always right.
