Jose Mujica Quotes
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.
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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
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I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.
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The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.
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He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.
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I learned that one can always start again.
