Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes

I learned during my term and in the presidency that we should not discuss about assumptions or insinuations. If one day I have to do something against the U.S., the first one to get to know what I was going to do would be the president of the U.S.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
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• If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
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• I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
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• The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

  

  Adam Grant
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• Women put guys through tests all the time.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
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• I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
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• My parents ask if I'm alright; I say 'I've just been staying up too late.I need to sleep' I need to do something!To get this awful weight up off my chest,keep her pretty ghost from chasing me!

  

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• The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, 'Teach me mysticism.' It's a joke.

  

  Elie Wiesel
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• Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.

  

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• You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
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• I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

  

  Bryan Robson
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• I like acting a lot, but it's not something I get out of bed for every day.

  

  Joe Russo

• The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

  

  Charles Wagner
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• Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

  

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• Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.

  

  Hugo Lloris
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  • Place

• I care about making New York better.

  

  John Catsimatidis

• I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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  • Up

• I learned during my term and in the presidency that we should not discuss about assumptions or insinuations. If one day I have to do something against the U.S., the first one to get to know what I was going to do would be the president of the U.S.

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva