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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I have an amazing 1930s dress I picked up in Toronto at Cabaret on Queen West. It's a red knee-length tea dress, and it's absolutely beautiful. It makes me happy every time I put it on.
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How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
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Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
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Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
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I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome.
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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.
