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Quotes by Brazilian Authors
"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
"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."
"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
"I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God."
"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."
"There are no small accidents on this circuit."
"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."
"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
"If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!"
"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."
"But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn.We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth.The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy."
"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
"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."
"Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone."
"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."
"Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity."
"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."
"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."
"I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile."
"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."
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."
"I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow."
"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."
"I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic."
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation."
"Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I felt as if nature was in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul."
"I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car."
"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."
"It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it's not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds."
"Everyday, God gives us the sun- and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist - that today is the sames as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment."
"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."
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
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