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.
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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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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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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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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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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 turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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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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When I'm on set, I know what I want.
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I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.
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It's all about making an experience. You go to the movies to see something you've never seen before. You want to get different people out there with different voices. So you see awesome huge spectacle or just a small unbelievable story you've never seen before.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.
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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.
