Paulo Coelho Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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Being evil is easy.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
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We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
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Content is supposed to be king. But in the world of electronic devices, Apple seems to be placing the crown on its own head, apparently believing that its iPad and iPhone are more important to customers than the books, movies, and music they store on them.
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In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.
