Nuno Oliveira Quotes
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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Irrigate crops at short intervals and apply light irrigation especially in the evening.
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You must have faith in God.
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The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.
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The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
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I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.
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The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
