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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The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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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.
