Jose Mujica Quotes
My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated overseas platform that has been cut off by banks and scrutinized by the Fed. We are looking to remove the pain points and create a way to invest that is faster and more secure.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
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When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.
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If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
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Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
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I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.
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My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
