Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes
I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
-
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
-
I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
-
I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
-
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
-
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
-
I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
-
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
-
What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
-
If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
-
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
-
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
-
The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
-
When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
-
I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
-
All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
-
I didn't want to do something typical.
-
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
-
I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
-
My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.
-
I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
-
Those of us that get to a certain level, we have to start giving back to our communities, giving information it's something that you have to do. It's either realize that you're a great individual by nature and move towards that or just accept the white man telling you: 'you're never going to prosper, this world isn't meant for you to prosper, we have privilege, you don't, that's it.'
-
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
-
I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.
