Paulo Coelho Quotes
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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When we let our freedoms slip away without a fight or even without concern, we take freedom, prosperity and happiness away from our posterity. What kind of people do that? Are we such people? These are questions each of us must face.
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I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
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I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
