Paulo Coelho Quotes
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
Karen Armstrong -
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons -
When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
Maceo Parker -
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Rafael Vinoly -
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
Gary Shteyngart -
I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
Cameron Dallas
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
Oscar de la Renta -
I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
Barbara Corcoran -
If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.
Dane Cook -
When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.
Barry Ritholtz -
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken -
What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
Ted Engstrom
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Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'
Vincent Bugliosi -
I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.
Adam Hughes -
The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.
Flavor Flav -
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
Ramakrishna -
The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.
Rajneesh
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Every time I've heard Ava DuVernay speak, I have learned so much.
Marley Dias -
I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn - a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces - a less interesting game.
Geoffrey Boycott -
Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
Lao Tzu -
I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
Larry Wilmore -
My collaborations with V. Radhakrishram and B. G. Clark were especially fruitful.
Robert Woodrow Wilson -
What hurts us is what heals us.
Paulo Coelho