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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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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...we tell Saudi Arabia that they should stand with the Yemeni people. And anyone who doesn’t stand with our people, they are the losers. We know what it means to be free, and we will achieve it. And the interests of countries, it’s with the people and not with the regimes, because these regimes will be gone.
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Learning is a consequence of thinking.
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I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
