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Quotes by Brazilian Authors
"I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time."
"If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will that be considered too intimi-dating? And if the thoughts are proved to be untrue, but your friend still insists on believing in them anyway, would that be considered a cons-piracy?"
"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."
"You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous."
"I used to see dolphins as cute, Smart and funny sea animals. I know now that they're astute, Divine beings, clever mammals."
"Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender."
"Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint."
"I feel very proud, even though they didn't elect me, to be President of the Argentines."
"The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world-a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life."
"Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression."
"I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads."
"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil."
"Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business."
"And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children."
"It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is."
"People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference."
"There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this."
"Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing."
"I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous."
"I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability."
"Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that."
"Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one."
"Knowing someone's name meant knowing that the other person was a human being and not "the enemy. Knowing someone's name transformed him into a unique and special individual, with a past and a future, with ancestors and possibly descendants, a person who has known triumphs and failures. People are their names; they're proud of them; they repeat them thousands of times in their lifetime and identify with them. It's the first word they learn after "Daddy and "Mummy."
"For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves."
"Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa."
"The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become."
"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."
"You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president."
"Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!"
"Facebook asks me what's on my mind. Twitter asks me what's going on. LinkedIn wants me to reconnect with my colleagues. And YouTube tells me what to watch. Social Media is no reality show or Big Brother. It's but a smothering mother!"
"Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work."
"I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate."
"For there is no such thing: Right person at the right time! Instead with the right team, Embrace Time that simply flies.Never when meeting old friends Does time really pass by?In trust and truth they make amends So Time they can really defy. Hence, no one denies then: In all it revitalizes. Principled friendship never dies!"
"As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing."
"A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it."
"The Warrior knows that no man is an island.He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle."
"He started to estrange her... And they became strangers Who knew each other's heart, So broken as they drifted apart."
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