Jorge Amado Quotes

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Jorge Amado

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: brazilian
  • Birth: August 10, 1912 - August 6, 2001

Topics

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Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Joan Halifax

FearCompassionMoralEnemiesThings

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

Jo Cox

PoliticalYouBornNeverUpWhere

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

John Bercow

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I never saw 'Home Alone.'

John Cho

HomeAloneNeverSaw

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'

Robert Smith

PerspectiveWaitWritingStartThink

In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.

Angela Merkel

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My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.

Steven Pinker

PoliticsPoliceMeStrikeTestOut

How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'

Steve Sabol

MusicDeepYouEverythingNFLHear

We're Real Madrid - and being successful is part of our DNA.

Toni Kroos

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When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

Ruth Negga

LoveSomeoneYouKnowHumanBegin

My theory is that women simply can't get along with each other or work well together.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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Exercise and eat healthy foods in moderation. I am a vegetarian but that is a personal choice.

Liz Parrish

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