Jose Saramago Quotes
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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The Statist has an insatiable appetite for control. His sights are set on his next meal even before he has fully digested his last. He is constantly agitating for government action. And in furtherance of that purpose, the Statist speaks in the tongue of the demagogue, concocting one pretext and grievance after another to manipulate public perceptions and build popular momentum for the divestiture of liberty and property from its rightful possessors.
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My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
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Miracles are supposed to point us to Him, but we can get to God without miracles. It is God himself we should long for rather than for the miracles that point to him. To get caught up in wanting miracles is a bit like thinking the destination of a road trip is the highway you're supposed to take.
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The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
