Jose Saramago Quotes
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
Quotes to Explore
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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When you play the king of elves and alien warlords, little me is very uninteresting. But, at the same time, actors feel this obligation to be transparent, and I truly don't understand the point.
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'Death Sentence' really is a throwback to the '70s style revenge drama with moments of action. It's like a contemporary 'Death Wish' with a much more thriller style storyline, but the action scenes I shot very much in the style of '70s films like 'The French Connection.'
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What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
