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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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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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 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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Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
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You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
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We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
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Many anthropologists work with a concept called embodied knowledge - tacit, nonscientific knowledge - and look for ways to incorporate such information into product design.
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It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
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Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
