Paulo Coelho Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
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I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.
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I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
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What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.
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Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
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You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
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There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
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Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.
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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.
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Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
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But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.
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Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.
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What can’t be cured must be endured.
