Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden -
The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
G. Willow Wilson -
What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
Maddie Ziegler -
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
Gary Wolf
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Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
Sam Kean -
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
Edmund White -
By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.
Barton Seaver -
Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
Barry Bostwick -
If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.
Harbhajan Singh -
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Kuang
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.
Nam June Paik -
The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea.
D. H. Lawrence -
Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.
Lee Kuan Yew -
Global warming. Every day I leave my house and think, 'was it this hot last year?' the heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. I can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees fahrenheit out here (40.5 celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day.
Mike Shinoda Linkin Park -
One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.
Mary Beard -
I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.
Bob Feller
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.
Matt Ridley -
And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.
Han Nolan -
Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.
Richard O'Brien -
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor Hugo -
Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
Fernando Pessoa