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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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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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.
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The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.
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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
