Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg -
I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
Park Chan-wook -
The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
Beck -
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Zinedine Zidane -
Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
Odeya Rush -
I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
Gabriel Basso
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence -
I talk to the universe all the time.
Ted Lange -
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler -
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson -
There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Karl Popper
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara Sher -
I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
Tamron Hall -
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
Rachael Leigh -
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
Saint Ignatius -
I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well.
Viktor Yanukovych -
Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
E. F. Schumacher
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We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.
William Howard Taft -
We all need a laugh and I guess you're just the one.
Rod Stewart -
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold — by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
William Allen White -
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
Fernando Pessoa