Paulo Coelho Quotes
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
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Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
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I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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I like Barrington Leavey; he's the best, and Toots and The Maytals are also the best.
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'I want to say it again, and again, and again: Islam is not a religion, it's a political system meant on - bent on world domination, not a religion. It masquerades as a religion, but the religion covers a worldwide attempt to exercise power and to subjugate the world into their way of thinking.' 10
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Panurge auoyt la pulee en l'oreille.
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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
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You caused this. Mother is dead from having too many children.
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The so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night. It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism. … Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in person.'
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Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.
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I love my job. I go to fight because this is me.
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Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.
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There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.
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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.
