Eike Batista Quotes
I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Personally, I like to juice up several different kinds of fruit and vegetables - which may include various combinations of bananas, red bell peppers, apples, carrots, celery, broccoli, spinach, parsley, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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I didn't get married until I was 38.
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You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
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I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.
