Paulo Coelho Quotes
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
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Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
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One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
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1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
