David Luiz Quotes
I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Midi is my hobby.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
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I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.
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Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all.
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Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!
Colson Whitehead -
I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile
