Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes
They were two and a half decades in which Brazil had no capacity to invest in infrastructure. Just to give you an idea, in 1989, we had in Brazil about 50,000 project-engineering businesses. When I took office, there were just 8,000. Universities were no longer turning out engineers.Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott -
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken -
Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
Yair Lapid -
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
Marat Safin -
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
Gary Bettman -
I don't know how anyone could stop working.
Vicki Lawrence
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin -
The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
Sam Altman -
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln -
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
D'Angelo -
In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
Laura Mvula -
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
Aaron Sorkin -
It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.
Zach Anner -
And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
Fawn Hall -
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Karl Kraus -
Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I've always worked very hard.
Andrea Riseborough -
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
Eric Allin Cornell -
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
Igor Sikorsky -
They were two and a half decades in which Brazil had no capacity to invest in infrastructure. Just to give you an idea, in 1989, we had in Brazil about 50,000 project-engineering businesses. When I took office, there were just 8,000. Universities were no longer turning out engineers.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva