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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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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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.
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I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.
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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.
