Silvio Santos Quotes

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

Silvio Santos

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• Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

  

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• Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

  

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• I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

  

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• In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

  

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• Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.

  

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• History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

  

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• This legislation will give miners a fighting chance to survive situations like what happened at Sago.

  

  J. M. Roberts
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• I've got more respect out of this for myself. It's the best decision I ever made.

  

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• Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

  

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• I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.

  

  Anthony Robbins
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• If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
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• Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

  

  Silvio Santos
  • Reform
  • Intend
  • Social Justice