Jose Saramago Quotes

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

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• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Things
  • Better

• What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Actor

• There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Way
  • Hide

• It's the irrational things that interest me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Me
  • Things
  • Interest

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rise

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Men
  • Results
  • Realize

• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Know

• We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • Game
  • Batman

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Dislike

• Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • War
  • Peace
  • Capitalism

• In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • God
  • Family
  • Powerful

• The Ferguson Grand Jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown is a miscarriage of justice. It is a slap in the face to Americans nationwide who continue to hope and believe that justice will prevail.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Death

• The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium.

  

  Joe Clark
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to discuss not only Kaliningrad, but also the eastern lands of Germany, the city of Lvov, a former part of Poland, and so on, and so forth. There are also Hungary and Romania on the list.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • War
  • Cities

• The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • World