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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• I get invited to a lot of college campuses, and administrators think it's going to be a lecture on 'trans-ness' or whatever. But when young people get there, their questions are about just life.

  

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• People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.

  

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• We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

  

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• This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

  

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• Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.

  

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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