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Jose Saramago Quotes

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: portuguese
Birth: November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010

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Citizen Become Changes Obligation

I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'

Good Wife You Said Why She

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Love Letters More Kisses Than Souls

There is always time for failure.

Failure Time Always

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.

You Coat Act Detective Like Trench

I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be - would love to see an expose like that.

Michele Bachmann

Love Great People Think American

I think a script is great when it starts with the structure and works with the structure without falling into the typical three-act system in which the audience is ahead of the movie. I hate that, but that is like 99% of what I read.

Luca Guadagnino

Great Hate Think Ahead Structure

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

Change Great Political Now Need

I've never been the person who's like, 'I've got to get a four-pack of abs!' And I'm not the type to go to the gym and run on the treadmill for 45 minutes and then lift weights.

Gym Person Go Lift Run Never

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

Vision Brain Understand Human Need

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Augusten Burroughs

Dreams Your Dreams Childhood People

My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.

Future Past People Me Way More

We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.

World Country Serious Greatest

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