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.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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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.
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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.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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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.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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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.
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Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
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Let me be clear: Under no circumstances can Iran be allowed to have nuclear weapons. ... To ensure that Iran never gets nuclear weapons, we need to keep all options on the table. Let me reiterate-all options must remain on the table.
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I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.
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History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In history, it's what you write, not what your credentials are.
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You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.
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Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
