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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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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I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.
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I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
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When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.
