Carmen Miranda Quotes

Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.

Carmen Miranda

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• There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Good
  • Band
  • Media

• I think I'm a soulful singer.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Singer

• Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Life
  • Singing
  • My Life

• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Day
  • Teacher

• The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • You
  • Like
  • Google

• I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Long
  • Just
  • Going

• After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Rejection

• I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Stop

• I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Dark
  • Blue

• Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Job
  • Weird

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Things
  • Survive
  • Dare

• I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Teacher

• As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Feel
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Support
  • Christian
  • Roots

• I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Women
  • Business
  • Direction

• I think that when audiences find a movie that they don't expect to like, it adds great word of mouth.

  

  Neal H. Moritz
  • Audience
  • Mouth

• In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Honesty
  • Percent
  • Finished

• Just remember, loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. If there is something that still wounds you, it's because of the meaning that you have linked to it. Maybe what you need to do is to have faith and say, 'Even though I don't know why this has happened, I am willing to trust. Someday, when the time is right, I will understand.'

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Remember
  • Universe
  • Disappear

• Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.

  

  Carmen Miranda