Paulo Coelho Quotes
However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
