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Quotes by Portuguese Authors
"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."
"Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."
"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
"Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them."
"I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way."
"I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United."
"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently."
"Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life."
"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975."
"But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups."
"In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto."
"I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice."
"Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts."
"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."
"Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business."
"It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."
"When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game."
"I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!"
"You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time."
"The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch."
"Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard."
"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents."
"When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started."
"Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties."
"At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions."
"I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined."
"I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that."
"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
"I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about."
"My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles."
"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
"Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears."
"The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20."
"Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you."
"Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974."
"We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations."
"I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch."
"As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people."
"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
"The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas."
"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."
"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
"It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease."
"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession."
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