Jose Saramago Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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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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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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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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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.
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Ingiustissimo Amor, perché sì raroCorrispondenti fai nostri desiri?Onde, perfido, avvien che t'è sì caroIl discorde voler ch’in duo cor miri?
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Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
