Gilberto Gil Quotes

#1. Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

Jesse Harris

#2. I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.

Gilberto Gil

#3. Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.

Gilberto Gil

#4. Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Bill Hayden

#5. I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

Jimmy Connors

#6. Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

Wayne Rooney

#7. He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#8. Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

Gilberto Gil

#9. Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life ... but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

Gilberto Gil

#10. The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.

Gilberto Gil

#11. To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.

Ronald Kessler

#12. Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

Jeremy Bentham

#13. I love comics. Comics are something I've always wanted to do.

Rebecca Sugar

#14. The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Bill Gates

#15. We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.

Gilberto Gil

#16. But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don't want to do.

P.C. Cast

#17. I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again

Megan Whalen Turner

#18. He smelled meat burning and realized that it was him.

Peter David

#19. As castles went, this one looked as though it could be taken by a small squad of not very efficient soldiers. For defence, putting a blanket over your head might be marginally safer.

Terry Pratchett

#20. For the longer to have had to rack your brains for something the more firmly will is stay once you have got it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#21. [ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba ...

Gilberto Gil