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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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
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Smoking is an outward signal of inner turmoil or conflict and most smoking has less to do with nicotine addiction and more to do with the need for reassurance.
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It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase - it's about being a positive do-gooder. But it's also: how can I participate in globalization in a really clear way? Like: don't leave the house unless you can bring something worthy into the world. And so Nicaragua changed the way that I want to do things.
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Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on its feet.
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Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.
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The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
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Being patient does not mean being silent.
