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.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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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.
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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.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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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.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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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.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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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.
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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.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
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Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.
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There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.
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I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.
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Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
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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.
