Jose Saramago Quotes
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.
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We are convinced that Organic Avenue is extraordinarily well positioned to become a national leader in both the rapidly growing $5 billion organic juicing industry and the $75 billion natural foods industry, driven by an increasing number of consumers moving towards a healthier diet of organic foods.
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The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.
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I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
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A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
