Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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Architecture is invention.
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There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
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My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
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I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
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For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
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I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the Heart.
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I was thinking in the cab on the way here that when I did press for the original production it felt like this was what I’ve always dreamt of - to be talking about myself, and about a play that I’ve written, and to be photographed. It was what I wanted. Now it’s just part of the job.
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…my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis…
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It took me a long time to adjust and narrow down my life. I made my shift to the mind-set … there's time for my daughter outside work and that's all. This is my new life. This is not drudgery. This is fun.
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'Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with moustaches.' 1
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A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.
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My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive.
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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
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I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.
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Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
