Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
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I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.
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I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.
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The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
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In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair with the car. Regaining a culture where cycling is seen as an everyday part of life requires time and effort. Of course in some British towns it never really went away - just look at Oxford and Cambridge. In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.
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The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
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Observe how endings become beginnings.
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The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.
