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Quotes by Brazilian Authors
"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."
"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
"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."
"I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God."
"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."
"One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now."
"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!"
"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."
"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid."
"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
"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're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom."
"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."
"I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow."
"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."
"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 cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic."
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
"It's true, life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend."
"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."
"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."
"I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people."
"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 other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them."
"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 did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds."
"Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?The tree says to the leaf:"That's the cycle of life. You may think you're going to die, but you live on in me. It's thanks to you that I'm alive, because I can breathe. It's also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile."
"When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done."
"In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike."
"The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism."
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