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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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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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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What is the world coming to?
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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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'Peter Pan' makes 'Black Watch' and 'The Bacchae' look like a walk in the park.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder. The design of the world and the look of the film is all in service of trying to create that feeling of wonder in the audience.
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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.
