Paulo Coelho Quotes
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Quotes to Explore
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
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Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
