Jose Saramago Quotes
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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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.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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I don't know what's going to happen in the future; I just know this: I'm going to continue to give my best effort to the game, stay prepared.
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I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
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The beautiful faces of the children I’ve met in Rwanda and in other countries are with me every day and fuel my passion to raise awareness of the global hunger issue. That’s why I’m urging everyone to join me and #PassTheRedCup for Yum! Brands’ World Hunger Relief effort. Together we can move millions of children from hunger to hope.
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A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
