Dilma Rousseff Quotes
I consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.
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We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor — a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get to know our father — someone with whom we have an essential relationship.
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While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.
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It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing.
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I consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S.
