Xanana Gusmao Quotes
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
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To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.
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I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
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As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
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'It is what you believe that translates in the life you live.'
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
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Being patient does not mean being silent.
