Jose Saramago Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing.
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Americans have discovered fear.
