Paulo Coelho Quotes
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown - even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
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It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.
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I know the rigors of network news. I didn't want to be jumping on an airplane twice a week. I didn't want to be tied to my pager and my cellphone.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown - even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
