Eduardo Paes Quotes

I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.

Eduardo Paes

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GodCityThank GodFastWantBoring

We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a party to this, are criminalizing them and sending them back, inhumanely.

Jill Stein

TogetherBackPartyCreateRefugees

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

John Guare

BeautifulValuePeopleYouGoSee

In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.

John Coltrane

LifeGodSpiritualGraceMeYear

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

Robert Krulwich

TimeTrustWordsEyeLearnPowerful

We have two day-parts, lunch and dinner. We don't have breakfast. We don't have drive-thru. We don't have late night. We don't have 24-hours.

Steve Ells

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If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated.

Trevor Dunn

I AmMeSomeoneI CanNewSomething

There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too.

Robin Leach

FatherI AmMeGrandfatherImage

The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

Johnny Weir

CommunityMyselfYourselfMeYou

My dad had this old truck that he used to take on back roads and showed me how to drive when I was nine or ten.

Chord Overstreet

RoadsMeTruckDriveBackOld

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

Chris Brown

MyselfMeVoiceFindingNewFirst

I remember when I drove into Notre Dame, getting ready for the first day of work. I had an electrical charge go up my back because I realized all of a sudden that I was responsible for the traditions that the Knute Rocknes and the Frank Leahys had set, and what Notre Dame stood for.

Ara Parseghian

WorkDayRememberBackReadyGo

My sister was brilliant: she was in the 25 top math students in the country. When she finished college, I said, 'Spend a couple of months here in Europe. You'll get another take on life.' She never came - married some schmuck who made clothes for fat women on Seventh Avenue.

William Klein

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