Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Every time I play with somebody, your perspective gets a little extended. It always rounds you out a little more in some way.
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
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In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
