Paulo Coelho Quotes
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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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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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.
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If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
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I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.
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I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.
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Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
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The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
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Sometimes, you get tired of fighting. I think you just sort of come to this realization that yes, that you will get tired, but that doesn't mean that you can give up the fight.
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I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.
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I was arrested three times and tortured once.
