Paulo Coelho Quotes
It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
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The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.
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My grandfather always told me, 'You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.' It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.
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Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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You know that the world is a better place when people can come up to a severely disabled person and say: 'Well done. You are an inspiration.'
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It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.
