Reinaldo Quotes

#1. When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

Christina Ricci

#2. Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.

John Boehner

#3. Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.

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#4. The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

James Gleick

#5. Politics and religion are topics that people tend to stay away from in their conversations, because they're polarising. But they are important topics, so they should be discussed the most, so we should know each other's opinions on them.

Matt Lindland

#6. All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always some hope, especially for cowards. I was one of them, one of those cowardly or hopeful young men who still thought the government had something to offer.

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#7. To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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#8. Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.

Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna

#9. I asked the cardiologist why an electrocardiogram was called an EKG, instead of an ECG.
He said, "Nazis. Nazis invented the machine."
After he left, I found a napkin on my breakfast tray and wrote that down: EKG = Nazis.

Monica Drake

#10. Being a fugitive living in the woods at the time, I had to write before it got dark. Now darkness was approaching again, only more insidiously.

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#11. Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.

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#12. My sexual activity was all with animals. First there were the hens, then the goats and the sows, and after I had grown up some more, the mares.

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#13. What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.

Nikolas Schreck

#14. Like a lightning bug ... Like a lightning bug? ... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them.

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#15. Sin eventually destroys my capacity even for enjoyment, let alone meaning. It distorts my perceptions, alienates my relationships, inflames my desires, and enslaves my will.

John Ortberg

#16. All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.

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#17. You told me that it would be better to find family among people who were good than to try and find good among my family.

Rich Burlew

#18. These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.

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#19. I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

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#20. Cuba will be free. I already am.

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#21. Schizophrenia: A psychotic disorderncharacterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations. See also: Nightmare.

Holly Schindler

#22. Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

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#23. A person's success is often limited by the level of their desire to succeed

Mark W. Boyer