Paulo Coelho Quotes
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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India is among the leaders in thinking about how technology can solve some of the problems about financial inclusion. But if you think that financial inclusion as a problem has a solution rooted in technology, it's obviously not the only thing.
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American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
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But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
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Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases; Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!
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If you have a dream, hold on to it, believe in it and never stop working hard to make it come true.
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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
