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
Related They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship a... RAFAEL CORREA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was fo... VIK MUNIZ I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of... BRUCE COVILLE Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, inte... NOAM CHOMSKY It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither ca... CORAZON AQUINO I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that w... BENAZIR BHUTTO Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY It's denying the Castro dictatorship of the currency that it needs, of the money that it needs to su... ROBERT MENENDEZ I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The PPP and Bhutto will not succumb to such pressure tactics of the military dictatorship. FARHATULLAH BABAR Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or... MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of... WAEL GHONIM Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication. DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure. DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you. JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself. JEFF KINNEY If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li... APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت... مليكة مستظرف Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rul... BENAZIR BHUTTO You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We want to see Thailand emerge as a bastion of freedom and democracy, not as a ... partner with the ... CHRIS SMITH Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or m... GENE SHARP Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond. ANGELICA HOPES We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found mysel... RAFAEL CRUZ Fundamentally it is not (responsible) because it is a dictatorship. CAO CHANGQING If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the pr... BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regim... MOHAMED ELBARADEI Everything has happen, will happen and it's going to happen in one moment. There isn't even and time... DEYTH BANGER I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is t... PAULO COELHO My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange time... YANIS VAROUFAKIS That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution i... GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ... GEORGE ORWELL The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... CHARLES BUKOWSKI اگر ما از حماقت مردم استفاده میکنیم، گناه از ما نیست، ... SADEGH HEDAYAT A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. GEORGE W. BUSH I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics. SAMUEL HIMMEL Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictato... ISMAIL KADARE The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr... STEPHEN CHOBOSKY
More Vik Muniz
I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, be... VIK MUNIZ The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up bei... VIK MUNIZ My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and b... VIK MUNIZ My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught ... VIK MUNIZ I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personalit... VIK MUNIZ I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that th... VIK MUNIZ The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attac... VIK MUNIZ I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was fo... VIK MUNIZ Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thi... VIK MUNIZ Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due t... VIK MUNIZ Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understa... VIK MUNIZ Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even ... VIK MUNIZ The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep... VIK MUNIZ Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about. VIK MUNIZ Here we come, here we are, here we lay VIK MALUT If you can make her laugh, you just did the first half. VIK MALUT I was so pleased with how well our team did, especially considering it was their first year. KATHY VIK She did a beautiful job. KATHY VIK Education has to point toward a career, and this is exactly what is happening in these events. KATHY VIK Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I... FRANKIE MUNIZ I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dent... FRANKIE MUNIZ I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take tw... FRANKIE MUNIZ Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas. FRANKIE MUNIZ It's common sense. This is a city people love to visit, and this is one of the events that makes New... ED MUNIZ It was a 2-1 count, so I was sitting fastball. He had just thrown me a curve. I got a knee-high fast... BEN MUNIZ I had to separate my stride from my swing. I was striding too late and I wasn't seeing the ball. BEN MUNIZ I've had Malcolm since I was 12. FRANKIE MUNIZ My ankle feels fine. It's my swing that's been bothering me. BEN MUNIZ We did a lot of good things tonight. We've improved an awful lot since the first game of the season.... JOE MUNIZ There was nervous apprehension. When you first go back after you've been out for a while, and the re... MICHAEL MUNIZ I want to be business friendly, because we're living in a tough time and too many people are leaving... ED MUNIZ If no tourists came, we'd still have Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is a state of mind. ED MUNIZ This city has lost so much. It's time New Orleans begins on the road to recovery. ED MUNIZ Katrina dealt us a bad hand. But to say you're going to cut Mardi Gras is the wrong approach. That w... ED MUNIZ What's a few hours of overtime worth to send the world the message that Mardi Gras is wonderful and ... ED MUNIZ I really love racing and this is what I want to do right now and for the next two years. FRANKIE MUNIZ I'm going to make it my full-time deal right now because you kind of have to. You can't really juggl... FRANKIE MUNIZ [Now the two, who met when he was filming the horror movie Stay Alive in New Orleans this spring, ar... FRANKIE MUNIZ We had to drive in hours and hours of traffic to Jackson, Miss., because our flight from New Orleans... FRANKIE MUNIZ Malcolm in the Middle FRANKIE MUNIZ Dewey is so old, Michael Jackson stopped watching. FRANKIE MUNIZ Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like... FRANKIE MUNIZ Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I... FRANKIE MUNIZ I think we panicked a little bit. We told the guys if we were down five or up three, you still had t... JOE MUNIZ Our kids believed they could win this thing. We've known we were going to play East for a while and ... JOE MUNIZ He sees the whole floor. He's always pointing people here, there and everywhere, and while he's poin... JOE MUNIZ They guard, they score. They're a complete team. When I scout, they're a lot of fun to watch. JOE MUNIZ That was the best game I've seen him play in the three years that I've seen him play. He played very... JOE MUNIZ They showed me what type of heart they have today. We've gone through a lot this year, but they've w... JOE MUNIZ We didn't show a lot of courage and heart out there tonight -- and we need to find somebody who's go... JOE MUNIZ Be strong, never give up and always push on, SADIE MUNIZ (BILL SCHUFFENHAUER’S GRANDMOTHER)