Anibal Cavaco Silva Quotes
After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim - and if they used both halves of their brains - then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.
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Manmohan Singh is a wise, wonderful man.
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The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
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Exactly what useful work did those stockbrokers do to gain their enormous wealth, other than to exploit the people who work in industry, to take their money away and to make no useful contribution to society? Does the hon. Gentleman think that the working people of London are so stupid as not to realise that stockbrokers are parasites?
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily written and lovely and not too revealing. I went to her book launch and met her editor who said 'why don't you think about it? You can do it however you want, based on your characters or you.'
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We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.
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After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
