Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress.
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
