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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You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.
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Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.
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Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.
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Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
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Governments are not always right.
