Paulo Coelho Quotes

If someone is giving us something, that’s because we’re incapable of getting it for ourselves.

Paulo Coelho

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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.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• 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.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Speak
  • Act

• 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.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Development

• 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.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• 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.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • College
  • End

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Father
  • Me
  • King

• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Capable

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Music
  • Like
  • Used

• I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Parents
  • Day
  • Weird

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Political
  • Responsibility
  • Selfish

• I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Character
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Best
  • Animal
  • Intelligence

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

  

  Lori Petty
  • Men
  • Husband

• We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Criticism pretty much follows anything anyone ever does. So, anytime anyone ever writes a song, plays a show, or does whatever they do, there's going to be a certain amount of criticism because that's kind of what happens.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Criticism

• You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Person
  • Attitude

• If someone is giving us something, that’s because we’re incapable of getting it for ourselves.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Giving