Joaquim Barbosa Quotes
I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.
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Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
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I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.
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I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.
