Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes
I have known Evo Morales for many years, since the days of the union movement. From a historical and sociological standpoint, the election of Evo Morales is extraordinary, with great prospects and potential for the Bolivian people.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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'Hester Street' was my most complete character study, but 'Annie Hall' and 'The Last Detail' were also great.
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
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On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.
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I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.
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I have known Evo Morales for many years, since the days of the union movement. From a historical and sociological standpoint, the election of Evo Morales is extraordinary, with great prospects and potential for the Bolivian people.
