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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."
"Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you."
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
"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."
"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."
"There are no small accidents on this circuit."
"I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me."
"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
"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."
"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."
"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 have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
"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."
"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."
"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."
"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."
"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."
"If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it."
"It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path."
"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
"I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel 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."
"It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great."
"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."
"Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing."
"When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser."
"I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong."
"I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile."
"We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action."
"The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes."
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