Gilberto Gil (Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira) Quotes
Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.
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I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.
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I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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I thought my life would be different somehow I thought my life would be better by now But it's not, and I don't know where to turn
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If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.
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Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.
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You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
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As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.
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I was recruited at Alabama and at Auburn to play basketball.
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Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.
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Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.
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This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
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The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
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Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.
