Paulo Coelho Quotes
If someone is giving us something, that’s because we’re incapable of getting it for ourselves.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
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Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.
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I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
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When we’re afraid, we have a tendency to pray and ask God for peace before we’ll step out and do what frightens us. But most of the time, we simply need to move forward.
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If someone is giving us something, that’s because we’re incapable of getting it for ourselves.
