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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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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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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Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.
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The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.
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I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism.
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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.
