Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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The dead don't die. They look on and help.
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But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. - The judge
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
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At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
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'I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.
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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
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My homeland is the portuguese language.
