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.

[ 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.

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

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.

Dark clouds not only bring thunderstorm, They also bring rain.

If you guys are interested in getting any kind of animal, definitely go and adopt.

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

I just can't imagine that it's only a coincidence. I think they feel that it's kind of getting out of their control, and they're trying to tighten it back up.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long rows

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.