Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.
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I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.
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Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.
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I've always loved public speaking, and that's something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.
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My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
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No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
