Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
Laura Haddock
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
Dan Gilbert
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
Felix Dennis
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
Ted Lindsay
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My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
Rachel Keller
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Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
Quincy Jones
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I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
Olivia Colman
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
Victor LaValle
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I'm a country girl. The more big cities I go to, the more fashionistas and designers I meet who want to dress me, the more I have all these kind of superficial but amazing experiences, the more I just realize that I'm from Gloucestershire.
FKA twigs
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When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
Warren Ellis
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon
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May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
Nathan Myhrvold
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One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.
Walter Isaacson
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
C. S. Lewis
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'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
Christine Pelosi
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What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.
Iain Banks
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People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.
Art Alexakis
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Anytime you do something Latino, yeah, I love the color, the spice.
Esai Morales
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What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
Fernando Pessoa