Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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I like children - fried.
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People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!
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I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I'll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we're going to have tragedies as a result of that. I'm telling you right up front.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
