Jose Saramago Quotes
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.
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I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.
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There's so much rich interaction with drivers that we take for granted. It seems like a mundane thing, but it turns out to be a really big deal.
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The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.
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Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.
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I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.
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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
