10 July 2020

Madonna “Woman of The Year” Billboard Speech Transcript





Vocabulary


Blatant - Adjective. (Of bad behavior) done openly and unashamedly. Blatant lies
Relentless - Adjective. Oppressively constant; incessant.The relentless heat of the desert
Held - Verb. Past and past participle of hold. Mantida
That stands before you - que está diante de você



[Anderson Cooper introduced Madonna and thanked her for giving him faith during his years as a gay teenager.

“First of all I want to say thank you to labyrinth. That was an amazing, amazing performance. Can I put this down?
[Puts award aside]

“Sorry. Seriously.


[Madonna adjusts microphone stand between her legs.]

“It’s better this way. I always feel better with something hard between my legs.

[Crowd laughs.]

“Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant misogyny, sexism, constant bullying and relentless abuse. When I started, there was no internet, so people had to say it to my face. There were very few people I had to clap back at, because life was simpler then.



“When I first moved to New York, I was a teenager. It was 1979 and New York was a very scary place. In the first year I was held up at gunpoint, raped on a rooftop with a knife digging into my throat. And I had my apartment broken into and robbed so many times I just stopped locking the door. In the years to follow, I lost almost every friend I had to AIDS or drugs or gunshot. As you can imagine, all these unexpected events not only helped me become the daring woman that stands before you but it also reminded me that I am vulnerable; and in life there is no real safety except self-belief, and an understanding that I am not the owner of my talents. I am not the owner of anything. Everything I have is a gift from God.





“And even the ***** things that happened to me, that still happen to me, are also gifts. To teach me lessons and make me stronger. I’m receiving an award for being ‘woman of the year’, so I ask myself, ‘What can I say about being a woman in the music business? What can I say about being a woman?’ When I first started writing songs I didn’t think in a gender-specific way. I didn’t think about feminism. I just wanted to be an artist. I was of course inspired by Debbie Harry and Chrissie Hynde and Aretha Franklin, but my real muse was David Bowie. He embodied male and female spirit and that suited me just fine. He made me think there were no rules. But I was wrong.




“There are no rules – if you’re a boy. If you’re a girl, you have to play the game. What is that game? You are allowed to be pretty and cute and sexy. But don’t act too smart. Don’t have an opinion. Don’t have an opinion that is out of line with the status quo, at least. You are allowed to be objectified by men and dress like a slut, but don’t own your sluttiness. And do not, I repeat, do not, share your own sexual fantasies with the world.




“Be what men want you to be. But more importantly, be what women feel comfortable with you being around other men. And finally, do not age. Because to age, is a sin. You will be criticized, you will be vilified, and you will definitely not be played on the radio.



“When I first became famous, there were nude photos of me in Playboy and Penthouse magazine. Photos that were taken from art schools that I posed for, back in the day to make money. They weren’t very sexy. In fact, I looked quite bored. I was. But I was expected to feel ashamed when these photos came out, and I was not. And this puzzled people. Eventually I was left alone because I married Sean Penn, and not only would he would bust a cap in your ass, but I was taken off the market. So, for a while I was not considered a threat. Years later, divorced and single – sorry Sean – I made my Erotica album and my Sex book was released. I remember being the headline of every newspaper and magazine. And everything I read about myself was damning. I was called ‘a whore’ and ‘a witch.’ One headline compared me to Satan. I said, ‘Wait a minute, isn’t Prince running around with fishnets and high heels and lipstick with his butt hanging out?’ Yes, he was. But he was a man. This was the first time I truly understood that women really do not have the same freedom as men. 




“I remember feeling paralyzed. It took me a while to put myself together and get on with my creative life — to get on with my life. I took comfort in the poetry of Maya Angelou, and the writings of James Baldwin, and in the music of Nina Simone. I remember wishing that I had a female peer that I could look to for support. Camille Paglia, the famous feminist writer, said that I set women back by objectifying myself sexually. Oh, I thought, ‘so, if you’re a feminist, you don’t have sexuality, you deny it.’ So I said ‘ **** it. I’m a different kind of feminist. I’m a bad feminist.’

[Crowd applause]



“People say I’m so controversial. But I think the most controversial thing I have ever done is to stick around.”

[Crowd applause]







“What I would like to say to all the women here today, is this: Women have been so oppressed for so long, they believe what men have to say about them. And they believe they have to back a man to get the job done. And there are some very good men worth backing, but not because they’re men – because they’re worthy. As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other’s worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to be inspired by, to collaborate with, to support, to be enlightened by.



“As I said before, it’s not so much about receiving this award as it is having this opportunity to stand before you and really say thank you as a woman, as an artist, as a human. Not only to the people who have loved and supported me along the way, so many of you are sitting in front of me right now, you have no idea…you have no idea how much your support means.

[Starts tearing up.]

“But to the doubters the naysayers, to everyone who gave me hell and said I could not, that I would not, that I must not – your resistance made me stronger, made me push harder, made me the fighter that I am today, made me the woman that I am today.

“So thank you.”

















 Brazilian Portuguese Language:



 “Obrigada por reconhecerem minha habilidade em dar continuidade à minha carreira por 34 anos diante do sexismo, da misoginia gritante, do bullying e abuso constante. Quando eu comecei, não tinha internet, então as pessoas tinham que falar na minha cara. Havia poucas pessoas em que eu aplaudia de volta pois a vida parecia mais simples.



Quando eu me mudei para Nova York, eu era uma adolescente, foi em 1979 e Nova York era um lugar muito assustador. No meu primeiro ano nessa cidade, eu fiquei sob a mira de uma arma de fogo, fui estuprada num terraço com uma faca na minha garganta. E eu tive meu apartamento invadido e roubado tantas vezes que eu parei de trancar as portas. Com o passar do tempo, perdi para a AIDS ou para as drogas ou para as armas quase todos os amigos que tinha. Como vocês podem imaginar, todos esses acontecidos inesperados não apenas me ajudaram a me tornar a mulher ousada que está aqui, mas também me lembraram que sou vulnerável e que na vida não há segurança verdadeira exceto a sua autoconfiança  e entender que eu não sou a dona do meu talento. Eu não sou dona de nada. Tudo o que tenho é um presente de Deus. 


Até todas as merdas que me aconteceram, que ainda acontecem comigo, são presentes tamb´me. Ensinaram-me e me tornaram mais forte. Ao receber esse prêmio por ser a Mulher do Ano, eu me perguntei o que eu poderia dizer aqui sobre ser uma mulher na indústria da música. O que posso dizer em ser mulher? Quando eu comecei a escrever músicas, nunca pensei especificamente em gênero. Nunca pensei sobre feminismo, eu só queria ser uma artista. Eu me inspirei, é claro, em Debbie Harry e Chrissie Hynde e Aretha Franklin, mas meu muso verdadeiro era David Bowie. Ele personificava o espírito masculino e feminino e isso me agradava. Ele me fez pensar que não havia regras. Mas eu estava errada.


Não há regras se você é um garoto. Há regras se você é uma garota. Se você é uma garota, você tem que jogar o jogo. Você tem permissão para ser bonita, fofa e sexy. Mas não pareça muito esperta. Não haja como você tivesse uma opinião que vá contra algo. Você pode ser objetificada pelos homens e pode se vestir como uma puta, mas não assuma e se orgulhe da puta em você. E não, eu repito, não compartilhe suas próprias fantasias sexuais com o mundo.



Seja o que homens querem que você seja, e mais importante, seja alguém com quem as mulheres se sintam confortáveis por você estar perto de outros homens. E por fim, não envelheça. Porque envelhecer é um pecado. Você vai ser criticada e humilhada e definitivamente não tocará nas rádios.


Quando eu fiquei famosa, havia fotos nuas minhas na Playboy e Penthouse. Fotos que eu fiz quando mais jovem para estudantes de arte e posava para ter algum dinheiro. Eu parecia bastante entediado. Eu fui. Mas esperava-me que eu sentisse vergonha quando essas fotos fossem divulgadas, e não fiquei. E isso intrigou as pessoas. Eventualmente, fui deixada em paz porque me casei com Sean Penn e estava fora do mercado. Por um tempo eu não fui considerada uma ameaça. Anos depois, divorciada e solteira, desculpe Sean, eu fiz meu álbum Erotica e meu livro Sex. Eu me lembro de ser a manchete de cada jornal e revista. Tudo que eu lia sobre mim era ruim. Eu era chamada de vagabunda e de bruxa. Uma das manchetes me comparava ao demônio. Eu disse ‘Espera aí, o Prince não está correndo por aí usando meia-calça, salto alto, batom e mostrando a bunda?’ Sim, ele estava. Mas ele era um homem. Essa foi a primeira vez que eu realmente entendi que mulheres não têm a mesma liberdade dos homens.







Eu lembro de eu ter ficado paralisada. (emocionada) Levei um tempo para me recompor e continuar com a minha vida criativa, para continuar com a minha vida. Eu me confortava na poesia de Maya Angelou, nos textos de James Baldwin e na música de Nina Simone. Lembro-me de ter desejado ter uma parceira feminina para que eu pudesse ter melhor apoio. (emocionada) Camille Paglia, a famosa escritora feminista, disse que eu fiz as mulheres retrocederem ao me objetificar sexualmente. Então eu pensei, ‘Se você é uma feminista, você não tem sexualidade, você a nega’. E eu disse ‘Foda-se. Eu sou um tipo diferente de feminista. Sou uma feminista má’. (aplausos)


As pessoas diziam que eu era controversa. Mas eu acho que a coisa mais controversa que eu já fiz foi ficar nesse mundo e enfrentar tudo isso. (aplausos).

Michael se foi. Tupac se foi. Prince se foi. Whitney Houston se foi. Amy Winehouse se foi. David Bowie se foi. Mas eu continuo aqui. Eu sou uma das sortudas e todo dia eu agradeço por isso. (trecho removido do video)


O que eu gostaria de dizer para todas as mulheres que estão aqui hoje é: Mulheres têm sido oprimidas por tanto tempo que elas acreditam no que os homens falam sobre elas. Elas acreditam que elas precisam apoiar um homem. E há alguns homens bons e dignos de serem apoiados, mas não por serem homens, mas porque eles valem a pena. Como mulheres, nós temos que começar a apreciar nosso próprio mérito. Procurem mulheres fortes para serem amigas, para serem aliadas, para aprenderem com elas, para serem inspiradas, para serem apoiadas e para serem instruídas.


“Como eu disse antes, não se trata tanto de receber esse prêmio, mas de ter a oportunidade de estar diante de você e realmente agradecer como mulher, como artista, como ser humano. Não apenas para as pessoas que me amaram e me apoiaram ao longo do caminho, muitos de vocês estão sentados na minha frente agora, você não tem idéia ... você não tem idéia do quanto seu apoio significa.


 
Mas para aqueles que duvidam e para todos que me disseram que eu não poderia, que eu não iria e que eu não deveria, a sua resistência me fez mais forte, me fez insistir ainda mais, me fez a lutadora que sou hoje. Me fez a mulher que sou hoje.

Então, obrigada.”

14 January 2015

A Little Bit About Hebrew Language



In shared talk website, I met a person from Israel.

I showed him some basic phrases in Portuguese. Also he taught me some expressions in Hebrew. This language is more difficult than imagined.

Some Hebrew words that I learned:

Hi - Shalom

Bye - Shalom

 
Peace - Shalom
 

Toda - Thank you

ve - and

Shalom ve toda - Good see you (my translation)


practice english
Well, I learnd to say "Shalom" ha ha  ^.^

I know a Hebrew song. It's Now We Are Free by Lisa Gerrad. This music is Gladiador movie Theme.

I like this music very much. It have beautiful poem and melody.

The poem say about the fight for justice and freedom. The melody transmits hope and peace.


Now We Are Free - Hebrew/English/Portuguese  
Lyrics (on Screen)




Anol shalom
Anol sheh lay konnud de ne um {shaddai}
Flavum
Nom de leesh
Ham de nam um das
La um de
Flavne...

We de ze zu bu
We de sooo a ru
Un va-a pesh a lay
Un vi-I bee
Un da la pech ni sa
(Aaahh)
Un di-I lay na day
Un ma la pech a nay
Mee di nu ku

(Fast tempo, 4 times)
La la da pa da le na da na
Ve va da pa da le na la dumda

Anol shalom
Anol sheh ley kon-nud de ne um.
Flavum.
Flavum.
M-ai shondol-lee
Flavu... {Live on...}
Lof flesh lay
Nof ne
Nom de lis
Ham de num um dass
La um de
Flavne...
Flay
Shom de nomm
Ma-lun des
Dwondi.
Dwwoondi
Alas sharum du koos
Shaley koot-tum.

11 January 2015

Chinese Google and Youtube

I'm studying English in Shared talk website (Language Exchange Community).

I asked to a Chinese partner if are these websites like Google and Youtube in China?

He answer me. Sounds google is Baidu:

Baidu




 
In baidu, I found a video website. I liked it.

It's possible click in like or dislike and it ins't necessary to make login.

\(^-^)/

I'm knowing Baidu. I thinking it's interesting.

Below, I share a video from Chinese youtube:




10 January 2015

Music: It's My Life - Selo I Ludy


It's My Life is a song of the Bon Jovi band.

The "Selo I Ludy", I think so, it's a Ukrainian band. 


This band made a excellent and funny version of Bon Jovi's song.

I loved the Ukrainian accent!






It's My Life Lyrics

This ain't a song for the brokenhearted
No silent prayer for the faith departed
And I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice when I shout it out loud

It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive

(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said, "I did it my way"
I just wanna live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life

This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
Tomorrow's getting harder, make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky, gotta make your own breaks

It's my life
And it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive

(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said, "I did it my way"
I just wanna live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life

You better stand tall
When they're calling you out
Don't bend, don't break
Baby, don't back down

It's my life
It's now or never
'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive

(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said, "I did it my way"
I just wanna live while I'm alive

(It's my life)
And it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive

(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said, "I did it my way"
I just wanna live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life!


Selo I Ludy - Band


02 January 2015

Music: Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

Practice English with Simple Minds





(Hey, hey, hey, hey)

Won't you come see about me
I'll be alone dancing, you know it, baby
Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out
And love's strange: so real in the dark
Think of the tender things
That we were working on
Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me

Will you stand above me
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling
Rain keeps falling
Down, down, down
Will you recognize me
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling
Rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down


(Hey, hey, hey, hey)

Don't you try and pretend
It's my beginning
We'll win in the end
I won't harm you
Or touch your defenses
Vanity, insecurity

Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone dancing, you know it, baby
Going to take you apart
I'll build us back together at heart, baby

Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name
As you walk on by
Will you call my name
When you walk away

Oh, will you walk away
Will you walk away
Oh, call my name
Will you call my name



Policy Brazil - Resume

Federative Republic of Brazil



System of Government: Presidential Federalist Republic
 

President: Dilma Rousseff

Official language: Brazilian Portuguese

Capital: Brasília

Currency: Real

Population: 202 768 562 inhabitants

Largest city: São Paulo

Government Website: www.brasil.gov.br



Amazon Rainforest


Chapada Diamantina - Brazilian place
 
Toucan - Brazilian bird
 
 
Brasília - Capital

 
São Paulo city

Dilma Roussef President

Brazilan kids

Brazilian kids

Music - Innocence - Deborah Blando


Practice English with Debora Blando



The sky hides what I wanna see
Stars are like eyes
They're watching the dark
Passion and fear run all over me
Night is a ghost
Accusing my heart

This life can be
Such a lonely place
I hear the laughter
As I fall from grace
I fall from grace
Now I am branded
With original sin
World without end

(Chorus)
Who's gonna fight for innocence
When we're always
Denying the proof?
Who's gonna fight for justice
When we wash our hands of truth?

Like to go back to a simple life
Be as child in the promised land
Wish I could sleep
When night comes over me
Dreaming of flowers
Falling out of my hands

But I'm woken by the cries
Of an angry crowd
Against a man whose love
Could save me now

Save me now
I'll drink the blood
From your crown of pain
And they'll call us insane

(Chorus X2)

Nutrition Facts


Nutrition Facts is science communication about research on human nutrition.

Weekly, the doctor Michael Greger makes three short videos promoting and commenting on a scientific publication.

The nutrition research establish a direct relationship between food and health.

On site Nutrition Facts, you can search how to prevent and treat disease cancer, diabetes, hypertension and others.

dr michael greger

Below, we see a video on prevention and treatment of hypertension.



01 January 2015

Grammar - Irregular Verbs Table

Base form
Past simple
Past Participle
arise
a rose
arisen
awake
awoke
awoken
be
was/were
been
bear
bore
born(e)
beat
beat
beaten
become
became
become
begin
began
begun
bend
bent
bent
bet
bet
bet
bind
bound
bound
bite
bit
bitten
bleed
bled
bled
blow
blew
blown
break
broke
broken
breed
bred
bred
bring
brought
brought
broadcast
broadcast
broadcast
build
built
built
burn
burnt/burned
burnt/burned
burst
burst
burst
buy
bought
bought
can
could
……  (been able)
catch
caught
caught
choose
chose
chosen
cling
clung
clung
come
came
come
cost
cost
cost
creep
crept
crept
cut
cut
cut
deal
dealt
dealt
dig
dug
dug
do
did
done
draw
drew
drawn
dream
dreamt/dreamed
dreamt/dreamed
drink
drank
drunk
 drive
drove
driven
 eat
ate
eaten
 fall
fell
fallen
 feed
fed
fed
 feel
felt
felt
 fight
fought
fought
 find
found
found
 fly
flew
flown
forbid
forbade
forbidden
 forget
forgot
forgotten
 forgive
forgave
forgiven
 freeze
froze
frozen
get
got
got
 give
gave
given
 go
went
gone
grind
ground
ground
 grow
grew
grown
 hang
hung
hung
 have
had
had
 hear
heard
heard
 hide
hid
hidden
hit
hit
hit
 hold
held
held
hurt
hurt
hurt
 keep
kept
kept
 kneel
knelt
knelt
 know
knew
known
 lay
laid
laid
 lead
led
led
 lean
leant/leaned
leant/leaned
 learn
learnt/learned
learnt/learned
 leave
left
left
 lent
lent
lent
 lie (in bed)
lay
lain
lie (to not tell the truth)
lied
lied
 light
lit/lighted
lit/lighted
 lose
lost
lost
 make
made
made
may
might
……
 mean
meant
meant
meet
met
met
mow
mowed
mown/mowed
must
had to
……
 overtake
overtook
overtaken
 pay
paid
paid
 put
put
put
 read
read
read
ride
rode
ridden
 ring
rang
rung
rise
rose
risen
 run
ran
run
saw
sawed
sawn/sawed
 say
said
said
see
saw
seen
sell
sold
sold
             send            
sent
sent
set
set
set
 sew
sewed
sewn/sewed
 shake
shook
shaken
shall
should
……
shed
shed
shed
 shine
shone
shone
shoot
shot
shot
show
showed
shown
 shrink
shrank
shrunk
shut
shut
shut
sing
sang
sung
 sink
sank
sunk
sit
sat
sat
sleep
slept
slept
slide
slid
slid
smell
smelt
smelt
sow
sowed
sown/sowed
speak
spoke
spoken
spell
spelt/spelled
spelt/spelled
spend
spent
spent
spill
spilt/spilled
spilt/spilled
spit
spat
spat
spread
spread
spread
stand
stood
stood
steal
stole
stolen
stick
stuck
stuck
sting
stung
stung
stink
stank
stunk
strike
struck
struck
swear
swore
sworn
sweep
swept
swept
swell
swelled
swollen/swelled
swim
swam
swum
swing
swung
swung
take
took
taken
teach
taught
taught
tear
tore
torn
tell
told
told
think
thought
thought
throw
threw
thrown
understand
understood
understood
wake
woke
woken
wear
wore
worn
weep
wept
wept
will
would
……
win
won
won
wind
wound
wound
write
wrote
written