Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.
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Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
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If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.
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Maggie is my sister-in-law, married to my brother David. She is a defense attorney who devotes 25 percent of her practice to pro bono wrongful-incarceration cases.
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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
