Jose Mujica Quotes
If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
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Every idea has its time.
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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Money is power and power gives you choice.
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People can portray me anyway they want because I don’t give a damn… But don’t you analyze me and don’t you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don’t you dare do it until then.
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I believe in myself, and I've always had people behind me who believed in me. With that, you can do anything.
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I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.
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I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
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If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
