Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.
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I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'
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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
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The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.
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It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were.
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No one can keep you down except yourself.
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Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.
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Property isn't theft: it's nothing.
