Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
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Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.
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For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge - surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you.
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
