Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
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What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.
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You want to see how many races you can win, you want to see how many laps you can lead.
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When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
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The laws of nature tell us there's a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that's going to run out. And if we're smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
