Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.

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• I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.

  

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• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

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• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

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• When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

  

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• For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

  

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• I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.

  

  Halima Aden
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• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  

  Omar Bongo
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• I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

  

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• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  

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• I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

  

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• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

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• Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

  

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• I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.

  

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• What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

  

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• The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

  

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• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  

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• If you look at the end of a roll of toilet paper, like the brown paper tube, I basically worked in a factory that made humongous ones like that - for concrete or anything you wanted to put in there. I was the guy who chopped those up into smaller pieces, put them in a box, throw it in a pallet, wrap it up, jump in a forklift and put it on a truck.

  

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• As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.

  

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• I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

  

  Aziz Ansari
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• The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

  

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• Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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