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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

  Malcolm X
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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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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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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• It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.

  

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• To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

  

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• What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

  

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• Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

  

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• I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every position there is. I would cast this guy as the president in a heartbeat... but I just cannot believe a word he says.

  

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• Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

  

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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