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.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
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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.
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
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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.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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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.
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I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
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We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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I want to write something that celebrates life, that's fun to listen to.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for who they are, even if they receive only a fraction of love. I don't think one cancels out the other. I don't believe that there is any right or wrong... we simply coexist.
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It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true.
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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.
