Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

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• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

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• In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

  

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• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

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• I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

  

  Naveen Andrews
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• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

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• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

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• The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.

  

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• I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

  

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• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

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• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

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• You can't escape from what you are.

  

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• Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

  

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• You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

  

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• Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

  

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• Think positive thoughts, intensely. Grow enthusiastic images, boldly. Speak only wonderful words to yourself, constantly. Feel fantastic, NOW! This colors your view of the world. Like a magnet, you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire.

  

  Mark Victor Hansen
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• The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

  

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• Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Soul