Eduardo Paes Quotes
It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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Politics is a good thing!
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Living rationally and authentically does not mean that you map out your future by thinking carefully about what it would be like if you chose one path versus another path and then choosing on that basis.
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I certainly have no regret living in the U.S. The quality of life in Australia is good, but it is bloody good here as well.
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It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
