Thiago Silva Quotes
When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
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When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
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I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
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I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
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I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
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Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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Because who is more oppressed. Those that seek nothing but entitlements for themselves or those that claim for everything, social security, housing benefit, disability and pay for nothing.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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The American Dream is really money.
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When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.
