Fernando Pessoa Quotes
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
Fernando Pessoa
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
Yoko Ono
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
Eddie Marsan
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I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.
Rain
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
Camille Paglia
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In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.
John F. Kerry
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As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.
Charlie Pierce
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By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.
Amy Hoggart
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Where do any of the ancient sources speak of a divine man who was crucified as an atonement for sin? So far as I know, there are no parallels to this central Christian claim.
Bart Ehrman
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All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
Elliot W. Eisner
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
Fernando Pessoa