Jose Saramago Quotes
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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I have no problem with Brock Lesnar being a part-timer, because he's earned that spot. He's a multiple time champion in WWE, a former UFC Champion, NCAA amateur wrestling champion, so his accolades speak for themselves.
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The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.
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Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can’t afford anymore.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
