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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Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.
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It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
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I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.
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People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.
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We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
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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.
