Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.
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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
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I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.
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Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
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My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things.
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I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.
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In my personal life, I am very contemplative.
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The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
