Gilberto Gil (Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira) Quotes
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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People don't change just because you know more about them.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I absolutely dress down for daily fashion.
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I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
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Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.
