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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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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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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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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The tool the Buddha holds out to free the mind from desire is understanding.
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The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.
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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.
