Jose Saramago Quotes
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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The violence perpetrated by men against women must stop - and it's up to men to stop it. It is up to men to speak up and step in when they witness violence against women, and it is up to men to condemn the indefensible actions of the few and assert the will of the many.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
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I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.
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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
