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Quotes by Brazilian Authors
"I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God."
"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
"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."
"If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!"
"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."
"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."
"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."
"I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow."
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
"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."
"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."
"I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me."
"I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic."
"We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money."
"I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers."
"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."
"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate."
"I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time."
"Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present"."
"You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president."
"Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures."
"As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing."
"You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast."
"In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike."
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation."
"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid."
"Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one."
"In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today."
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