Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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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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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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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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I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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I always kind of did my own thing, but it got me into trouble a lot, so I started listening to what people were telling me to do to show I was a team player.
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Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
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Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough with the issues to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.
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Aliveness, he will teach, is a gift available to all by God's grace. It flows not from taking, but giving, not from fear but from faith, not from conflict but from reconciliation, not from domination but from service. It isn't found in the upper trappings of religion -rules and rituals, controversies and scruples, temples and traditions. No, it springs up from our innermost being like a fountain of living water. It intoxicates us lie the best wine ever and so turns life from disappointment into a banquet.
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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
