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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I can be very ordinary looking.
Rachel Tucker
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
R. Kelly -
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
Barbara Sher -
I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
Action Bronson -
It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
Dane DeHaan
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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.
Dalai Lama -
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
Forest Whitaker -
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 -
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Hanoi Hannah -
People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
Gary Peters
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I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.
Muhammad Ali -
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.
John Muir -
It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.
Michael Feldman -
If someone is giving us something, that’s because we’re incapable of getting it for ourselves.
Paulo Coelho