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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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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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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It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.
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Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.
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I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.
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She looked up at him and said,"What did you say?" "You have beautiful eyes." "You told my father that he has beautiful eyes?" He smiled. "No. You distracted me. I told your father that, while I was very grateful for the lesson, I doubt I would ever need of it again- because I was planning to court only one woman in my lifetime.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
