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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I can't watch my movies at their premieres - I learned that lesson the hard way.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven -
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
Paulo Coelho -
I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
David Prowse -
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
Jane Byrne -
The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.
Ashton Eaton -
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