Jose Mujica Quotes
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
Quotes to Explore
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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I don't know about being an icon yet but I definitely do love fashion; it's really important for me to resemble my music. I definitely look like I sound. Creating an image is an art form in itself, it's a really fun part of being a musician.
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I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
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I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
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It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them.
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All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
