Paulo Coelho Quotes
'No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I’m not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm'.

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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
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Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?
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On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left right after Katrina, who relocated to different cities, right? Houston, Atlanta. Right? Most of them have come back.
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I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.
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'No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I’m not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm'.