Dilma Rousseff Quotes
I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else.
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I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.
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You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.
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It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a country I have never even been to.
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It's hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.
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I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.
