"Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution."

-- Eduardo Paes

#Favelas Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.”
“Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; "extraordinary" stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion - all served with a side dish of that day's quota of suffering, devastation, and carnage. These remain journalism's stock-in-trade.”

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.
“In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.”
“Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.”
“I've always been a MC that wrote socially and politically aware songs, although I listen to all types of hip-hop. This time around I got tracks that make me say "Tupac Shakur would be proud."”
“I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.”
“We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.”

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