Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes
The thing is that we live in a presidential system with a parliamentary constitution. Congress has a lot of weight in Brazil, and the president cannot always do when he wants; he does what he can.Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Barack Obama -
As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
Ja Rule -
The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
Halsey -
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
Nathan Gamble -
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
Ted Cruz -
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Jackie Cooper
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
Mallory Ortberg -
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga -
I'm the best Twitterer.
Dan Carter -
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
R. Kelly -
I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
Famke Janssen -
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
Laura Wilkinson
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
Kate Voegele -
As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
Patrick Chan -
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Most geniuses are weird.
T-Pain -
I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
Dan Farmer
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'Good Morning America' is television to a fare-thee-well.
Frank Deford -
The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.
David Gross -
I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?
Lady Gaga -
Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -
It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.
Georges Perec -
The thing is that we live in a presidential system with a parliamentary constitution. Congress has a lot of weight in Brazil, and the president cannot always do when he wants; he does what he can.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva