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

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

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

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.

Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.

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.

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.

As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.

God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing

I don't take crap from anyone, so that makes people think I'm rebellious. I'm not. I'm just not a pushover.

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.