Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.Fernando Pessoa
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
Nacho Figueras -
I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
Laila Ali -
Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
Tammy Duckworth -
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta -
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine Albright -
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
Said Nursi
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Kate Winslet -
Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson -
With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
Orrin Hatch -
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
Patrick Modiano
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
Yancy Butler -
Without literature my life would be miserable.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
Taye Diggs -
You can grow apart from people very quickly.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett -
The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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One might even say that it's one of the scandals of capitalism that most capitalist firms, internally, operate communistically.
David Graeber -
But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
Olivier Martinez -
To a few alarmed observers it seemed as though Wall Street were by way of devouring all the money of the entire world. However, in accordance with the cultural practice, as the summer passed, the sound and responsible spokesmen decried not the increase in brokers' loans, but those who insisted on attaching significance to this trend.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
William J. Brennan, Jr. -
I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts to where I am. When I'm in Los Angeles, suddenly I'm like, 'I need a sandal, and I need a beige dress, and I need some flowers in my hair.'
Kaya Scodelario -
Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
Fernando Pessoa