Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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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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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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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.
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Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during times of great stress and tragedy.
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
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I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.
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When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
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It's great for their country, it's great for their program. I just wish it wouldn't have been us.
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Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
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Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
