Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com decência e naturalidade.

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• I knew I was going to be somebody.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Going
  • Knew
  • Somebody

• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Decision

• For me a day without training is like a day without eating.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Me
  • Day
  • Training

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Future
  • Government

• In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Different
  • Country
  • Religion

• Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Will
  • Policy
  • Stay

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Years
  • Two
  • Over

• I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Movies
  • I Can
  • Clothing

• I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Working

• We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Building
  • Pressure

• I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Think
  • Wealth

• I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Saintly

• The public has become my fairy godmother.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Public
  • Fairy
  • Godmother

• There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • World
  • Better
  • Movies

• I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Running
  • Yoga
  • Head

• I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

  

  Steven Levitan
  • Children
  • Religion
  • Differences

• We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Tears

• I am an open-minded person, so I would happily collaborate with other artists who share the same passion for music, regardless of the genre. I do consider that great things could also come from unexpected collaborations between people who have different cultural and musical backgrounds.

  

  Alexia Trif
  • Different
  • Genre
  • Collaborations

• When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Said
  • Proved
  • Bishop

• Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com decência e naturalidade.

  

  Fernando Pessoa