Vik Muniz Quotes

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.

Vik Muniz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: brazilian
  • Birth: December 20, 1961

Topics

TrustLearnYouInformationBecome

The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

Jimmy Chin

LifeDreamsPassionChildrenI Am

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.

John Lee Hooker

TimePeopleHelpSayOutBenefits

I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.

Jeff Tweedy

AdmitWantFallingCliche

I'm a huge fan of Nawazuddin.

Amy Jackson

FanHuge FanHuge

Nature refuses to rest.

John Updike

NatureRestRefuses

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

Russell Means

AmericanBornEveryoneNative

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

Monica Seles

MakeupGenerationYouLookBecome

That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.

David Shields

LifePeopleYouConversationWhy

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

BeautyGriefShadowPainMindGift

I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

Cole Swindell

MusicPeopleCoolRememberPerson

I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.

Alice McDermott

LifeMyselfForwardThinkMoments

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

Willie Aames

ThoughtYouNeverHonestStill

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