"Teenagers scrolling down their facebook feeds while walking on the streets are sitting ducks for thieves". — Sitting duck = someone or something that is vulnerable to an easy attack

TO /tu:/ noção de direção, ir para algum lugar, movimento, destino

FOR /fûr/ noção de finalidade, propósito

PADRÕES - GOING TO - SHOW TO - LISTEN TO

PADRÕES - do for - translate for - fight for

"John ratted on his sister to their parents". "The thief ratted on his companions to avoid jail time"

"John is always rabbiting on about his many dates with many girls"

I can't wait to meet her She can't wait to find a new job I can't wait for my vacation I can't hardly wait to buy a new computer

TOO / AS WELL / ALSO TOO: no final das frases. SEMPRE. TOO MUCH: demais, antes de adv ou adj AS WELL: frases afirmativas. No final. NOT ONLY, BUT ALSO ALSO: ...

ALSO 1. frase + ponto final + ALSO + frase que adicione uma ideia a primeira frase 2. entre o pronome e o verbo

Understanding is deeper than knowledge. There are many people who know you, but there are very few who understand you.

Drugs are a bet with the mind.

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not.

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

Sorry doesn't mean anything unless you mean it.

In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.

My problem is: as a singer and a dancer, if I get it in my body one way, it is harder for me to be open to something new - to something else; to something that is really organically connected to the piece and not just to my perception of it.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.