Jose Saramago Quotes
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.
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I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
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There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
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I believe that through music we can help heal the world.
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We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
