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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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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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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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.
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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.
