Jose Mujica Quotes
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
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I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
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The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people: finding waste, or money that is not being properly used... or finding opportunities that are out there and making them work for the community.
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Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
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I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.
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Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.
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When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.
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No charm is proof against a dagger in the back.
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The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.
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We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.
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When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say 'Canary!' - he'll take offense.
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The pictures, with their ruddy light, Are changed to dust and ashes white, And I am left alone with night.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time.
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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
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I was dead inside.
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I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.
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I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
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I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
