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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Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.
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We have a rule for that, but I don't have it in front of me.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
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A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.
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After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
