Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I grew up in New York.
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In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I been doing music my whole life.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.
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Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
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The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his … genius.
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For me, development gives strongest foundation to the secularism.
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You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word 'Negro' is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive-yellow.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.
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No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.
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At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.
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The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
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Myth is the nothing that is everything.
