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Quotes by Brazilian Authors
"We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom."
"I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started."
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
"Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you."
"I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me."
"If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!"
"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."
"There are no small accidents on this circuit."
"Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony."
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
"Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.'Like you?'On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time. Those people--and thousands of others--all lived in their own world."
"In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike."
"In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty."
"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."
"We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all."
"A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself."
"She, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child."
"Don't you think you're quite young?''I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old."
"I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel it."
"Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me."
"The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes."
"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
"These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile."
"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."
"If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it."
"They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice."
"When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser."
"I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other."
"Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone."
"I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down."
"It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path."
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