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.

  

  Ed Westwick
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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.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
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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.

  

  Earl Monroe
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• I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.

  

  Tamra Davis
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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.

  

  Lana Del Rey
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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.

  

  Samantha Harvey
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• Every idea has its time.

  

  Vicente Fox
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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.

  

  Ted Olson
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• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
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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.

  

  Patrick Modiano
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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.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• I hate wasting people's time.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
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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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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• I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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• Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

  

  James Frey
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• I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.

  

  Jean Pigozzi
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• I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

  

  Larry Dixon
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• Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.

  

  Walt Disney
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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.

  

  Jose Mujica
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