Jose Saramago Quotes
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Quotes to Explore
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
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Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
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I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.
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The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
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There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.
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Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
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I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
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A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
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I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.
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Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
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I want to get off with the screenwriting.
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The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do.
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It was an axiom of 'containment' that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. 'Neutralism' was among the Cold Warriors' gravest curse words, applied with caustic hostility to India and even France. Those who were not with were against, subjected to intense economic and ideological - and sometimes military - pressure to fall into line.
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.
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I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.
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Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
