Carlos Drummond de Andrade Quotes

E cada instante é diferente, e cadahomem é diferente, e somos todos iguais.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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• I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Game

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Think
  • Sick
  • Then

• My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Jews
  • Often
  • Anti-Semitism

• Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Why
  • Hair
  • Bald

• We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Mind
  • End

• We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Personality
  • Speed
  • Facebook

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Organization
  • Start

• Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans.

  

  Becky G
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Doing

• Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Singing

• We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Family
  • Experience

• It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Television

• I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Want
  • Feels

• Everyone believes that artificial or prerecorded calls - 'robocalls,' as they're known - are awful. They're intrusive. They're unwanted.

  

  Ajit Pai

• 'Sometimes I see signs on walls saying Kill the Rich,' Clem said. 'And sometimes Kill the Rich has been crossed out and Harm the Rich written underneath. A clear gain for civilization I would say. And the one that says Jean-Paul Sartre Is a Fartre. Something going on there, you must admit. Dim flicker of something. ...'

  

  Donald Barthelme

• If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

  

  Bill Dixon
  • Different
  • Remember

• The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Rich
  • Field
  • Photographers

• Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• E cada instante é diferente, e cadahomem é diferente, e somos todos iguais.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade