Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
Abdus Salam
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
J. Tillman
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
Felicia Day
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
Ma Jun
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
Hans Blix
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
Natasha Trethewey
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He who awaits much can expect little.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
Venus Williams
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
Olivier Theyskens
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
Victor Pinchuk
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
Edie McClurg
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I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.
Denis Leary
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I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.
Jeff Buckley
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I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
Dominic Monaghan
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It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
Fernando Pessoa