Vik Muniz Quotes
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.
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A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.
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In social, you have to innovate in information. If you have the same thing as everyone else, you're just not interesting.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best – performing and singing for people.
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Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
