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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I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.
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Le bonheur est, dans l'amour, un état anormal.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.
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From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
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I was arrested three times and tortured once.
