Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.
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I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.
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I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.
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I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.
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There's only one way to work -- like hell.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
