Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.
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It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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I have my career and my family, and that's it.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
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I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
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There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.
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We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
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Every utopia about to be realized resembles a cynical dream.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.
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I once did a Sprite commercial where I had to come out of the train station, jump out of a turnstile, jump on the side of a moving train. I had to run down the top of this moving train while it was going through the mountains and valleys. It was really hairy. I got my honorary stuntwoman card for that. I was proud.
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
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No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.
