Gilberto Gil (Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira) Quotes
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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I think celebrities suck.
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I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.
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Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
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Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger.
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You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.
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As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
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You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.
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Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.
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I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.
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I do think space hotels are probably in our future.
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Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.
