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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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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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 just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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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 have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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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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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
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I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.
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So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
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A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.
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One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.
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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.
