Anibal Cavaco Silva Quotes
After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Computing technology started out as number-crunching.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
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My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
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I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.
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In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
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We write and write and write until we think, 'If we have to shoot this script, we'll be happy, and it's going to be a great movie.' I meet with all the actors two weeks before, and I ask them, 'What lines don't work? What is uncomfortable for you? What jokes do you think aren't good? If you're not getting it, here's what the joke is.' You fix it.
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I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now.
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'
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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
