Eduardo Paes Quotes
Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.
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I'm obsessed with Bruno Mars' records. I'd give my right leg to be able to sing like that dude.
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'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.
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Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].
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Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities.
