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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In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie.
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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.
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Governments are not always right.
