Paulo Coelho Quotes
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
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Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
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The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.
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Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.
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I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
