Paulo Coelho Quotes

I think to myself that this really isn’t something I should concern myself with.

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• I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Inspiration
  • Complexity
  • Humour

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Succeed

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Changed
  • Last
  • Hawaii

• Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Confident
  • Away
  • Veterans

• I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Wine
  • Website
  • Cheap

• I've always been very fond of animals.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Always
  • Animals
  • Very

• Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Right

• 'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Write

• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Stage

• I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Money
  • True

• My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Different
  • Sports

• If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

  

  Karen Black
  • Daughter
  • Actress
  • Lifestyle

• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• 'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Taken
  • Difficult
  • Surprise

• Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.

  

  Todd Burpo
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Should

• Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Life

• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • You

• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Song
  • Piano
  • Audition

• To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • May
  • Animal

• I think to myself that this really isn’t something I should concern myself with.

  

  Paulo Coelho