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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I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
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Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.
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It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictatorsall, and I recommend to you this moral:In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.
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If someone is giving us something, that’s because we’re incapable of getting it for ourselves.
