Paulo Coelho Quotes
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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I received free health care.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It's not that there's anything wrong with them, it's just that people's real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, 'not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care' - in a word, awkward.
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I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.
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I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.
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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
