Antonio Lobo Antunes Quotes

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

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• Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Past
  • Giving

• I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Culture
  • Politics

• By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Home
  • Illness
  • Cure

• My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Father
  • Me
  • Best

• Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Want
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• I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • World
  • Story

• I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Money
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Food

• My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI. Her mother was part of the large community of French-speaking Canadians who settled in Woonsocket, RI.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Children
  • Family
  • Mother

• Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Into The Gloss is buoyed by the people on it, the people who read it and discuss it, and the people who work on it.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • People
  • Work

• I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Family

• Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

  

  Conner Eldridge
  • Life
  • History
  • Deep

• There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Time
  • Universe

• L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • People

• My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Country
  • School
  • She

• Playing the race card is done as if it were some kind of sport.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Done

• People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Souls
  • Peoples
  • Gardens

• Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.

  

  Amy N. Stewart
  • Place
  • Eternity
  • Gardens

• After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Produce
  • Select

• Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.

  

  Bettina Boxall
  • Water
  • Survival
  • Battles

• Approximately 400 cuts - that would make 25 percent of the total - use CGI. I worked on the Steamboy's animation production based on the usual handwriting method. Digital animation is just supplementary. I didn't do anything surprising, because the idea is to overcome the limitation of expressions done by handwriting with the help of CGI.

  

  Katsuhiro Otomo
  • Cutting
  • Overcoming
  • Animation

• Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Gardens
  • Fertilizer
  • Cabbages