Paulo Coelho Quotes

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Paulo Coelho

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• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • End
  • Just Because

• I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Grandparents
  • Ashamed
  • Slaves

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Good
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.

  

  Gail Collins
  • World
  • Hope
  • Rest

• I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

  

  Damian Marley
  • School
  • High
  • Cat

• Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Been
  • Hungry
  • Washington

• I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Care
  • Thought
  • Legacy

• Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Myself
  • Speak
  • Modeling

• I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Cool

• Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Mother

• If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

  

  Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time

• You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Life
  • Real
  • Songs

• What is the one emotion that you would like to feel for the rest of your life?

  

  Alice Steinbach
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Emotion

• Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Political
  • Attitude