Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes
It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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It never occurred to me that I was important enough to have some politician go out of his way to silence me. I only found out about it in the '80s by accident - a broadcaster announced they received letters of commendation from the White House for having suppressed my music. My career was so highly impacted in the U.S. it will never recover.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas.
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We're always flexible and pragmatic... It's always important to watch the unemployment rate and to make sure that we can keep most Canadians working. We were successful in that back in 2008-09.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.
