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.

Fernando Pessoa

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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

• As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Picture
  • Moon
  • Paper

• At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Night
  • Fire
  • Dignity

• 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

• Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • People
  • Character
  • Passions

• We started our struggle from 2005, and...we organized a lot of protests, weekly protests, in a place we called the Square of Liberty...We knew and know that the freedom of speech is the door to democracy and justice.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Democracy

• The military is not a social services operation or a testing ground for gender wars. It is a fighting machine. Women are not as strong as men. Their instincts and reactions in crises are markedly different.

  

  Liz Trotta
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I use Pureology Shampoo and Conditioner, and after shampooing, I'll put the conditioner on, go watch a movie, and wash it out later. When you have black girl hair, once we wash, we've gotta do the whole press and get in the edges and everything. That's a lot of heat to go back to straight on a daily basis.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Girl

• My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Age
  • Sometimes
  • First

• 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