Paulo Coelho Quotes
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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It is important this campaign be waged on a higher level of dignity and character. We will continue to move forward with our positive message for Pennsylvania.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
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The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such as myself are diminished by that label. I simply don't consider myself "new age." It's other people's small-mindedness that tries to connect me with someone who, let's say, thinks crystals are the answers to all of life's problems. I never did. There are those who suggest that anyone speaking from a base in California has less to say. That kind of bashing doesn't interest me.
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You're not a slave to those test audiences.
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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
