Jose Saramago Quotes
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.Jose Saramago
Quotes to Explore
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
Barbara G. Walker -
I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
Dan Pink -
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan -
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
Carl Hiaasen -
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
Sally Pearson -
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
Hailey Bieber -
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
I have always loathed working out.
Tea Leoni -
What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
Foster Friess -
I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
Cam
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
Parker Posey -
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
Sally Schneider -
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
Aasif Mandvi -
I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
Kate Moss -
My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
Victoria Pratt
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I much prefer the modern world.
Keith Henson -
The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that this transformation will have on wider society.
Pierre Nanterme -
I have a very positive outlook.
Pat Nixon -
I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.
Joe Biden -
People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.
Summer Altice -
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago