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Quotes by Portuguese Authors
"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
"At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root."
"There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference."
"It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease."
"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."
"Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings."
"Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?"
"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
"Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different."
"To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life."
"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built."
"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
"Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can."
"Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times."
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
"I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life."
"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
"The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins."
"The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters."
"The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave."
"When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you."
"I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come."
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
"I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from."
"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
"Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis."
"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession."
"The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently."
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it."
"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
"There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it."
"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
"I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective."
"If we want to survive this economic collapse, new mandatory school subjects should be eCommerce, Chinese, spirituality and aesthetics."
"Blessed are the ones who offer coffee to writers, for they will get all the rewards mentioned in the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita."
"Some people think they are punishing me when they hit their head against a wall. If that's not insane, I wonder what is. Yeah, I'm going to punish you for being my boyfriend, by insulting you and destroying our relationship. I'm going to punish you for taking me on vacations, by disappearing, even if you are the one with the house keys. I'm going to punish you for giving me books to read, by not reading them. I'm going to punish you for complaining about my behavior, by becoming a much worse person. And well, why not, I'm going to commit suicide to prove you my life has no value and you are wrong in thinking it does? It's so sad when people are literally as stupid and dumb as they are insane."
"You don't need to see the answer. You just need to ask the questions and believe the answer exists."
"The secret to success is no secret. Be honest in your words, be trustworthy and share value. Most people won't tell the difference, but those that do are your readers."
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