Jose Saramago Quotes
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
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You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
