"Brasil used to have - and still has, in some ways - a strong culture of showing off. And that's not only in sneakers and streetwear. People like to show how much their sneakers cost, usually by rocking performance models with visible technology, like Nike Shox, adidas Springblade and ASICS Noosa. It's like a status symbol for someone that wants to show to the world they "succeeded in life," no matter how rich they actually are."

-- Ricardo Nunes

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“Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?”
“Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?”
“Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.”
“rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.”

Source : Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”
“During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.”
“In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”
“I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world without me adding to it,”
“When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on”

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