Jose Saramago Quotes
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.Jose Saramago
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia -
I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
Rachel Nichols -
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini -
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
Ice T -
When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
D. B. Sweeney
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid -
I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
Nancy Pelosi -
The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
Idina Menzel -
I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
Rachel Weisz -
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
Adam Green
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
Damien Chazelle -
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel -
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
Kate Millett -
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
E. Y. Harburg -
I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
Rachel McAdams
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Ultimately, we're making and selling a consumer good that needs to work and that needs to make customers happy.
Emily Weiss -
I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.
L. Todd Rose -
'What?' said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.
A. A. Milne -
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden -
When I first saw Dick Gregory on television, growing up in Queens, it was startling and amazing, because nobody else was doing what he was doing.
Joe Morton -
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Jose Saramago