Fernando Pessoa Quotes

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

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• The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • House

• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Parents
  • Hand
  • Feel

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Very
  • Complicated

• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Memories
  • Memory
  • Loss

• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Business
  • Simple

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Name

• We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Government
  • Entrepreneur

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Live
  • American
  • Think

• There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Up
  • Child
  • Young

• Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Age

• Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Painting

• It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

  

  Bela Bartok
  • God
  • Believe
  • May

• The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.

  

  John Hurt
  • English

• Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Science
  • Psychology
  • Relation

• I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Believe