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Quotes by Portuguese Authors
"Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body."
"It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease."
"At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root."
"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."
"Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?"
"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."
"Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life."
"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.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."
"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession."
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
"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?"
"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
"When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you."
"The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters."
"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."
"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."
"To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life."
"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."
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
"Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times."
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"I'm often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don't have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money."
"I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from."
"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."
"Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love 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."
"Having less worries is what allows me to talk to beggars in the street or tell jokes at waitresses and try to make them smile. I couldn't do that before, when I had a job and was always worried about money."
"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."
"The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave."
"If you can say no to the things you don't like and if you can persist along the way of trying to get better, you will find them, you always will. That is the law of life."
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Dying for the world is not noble in anyway but a disgrace for the rest of the world itself, for those that don't do absolutely anything to support, help or even bleed. It's like going to war alone, while our friends cheer and applaud from the distance. It's not fun and doesn't make me proud in any way. Most so-called spiritual people in this world, are not spiritual, they think they are but they're braindead, they are living their own fantasies, their own Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings Stories, but not truly bleeding for life. And so, it's quite interesting when my friends do all they can to stop me from leaving them, from changing country, while at the same time, they give me no reason to justify being attached to them."
"Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature."
"God's strength is rooted in being faithful to his true Self, in just Being good. The Devil's strength depends on synergies, agreements, cooperation and beliefs."
"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
"God has more powerful aways to show Himself than any human postulate.And yet, a postulate is the highest form of prayer."
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