Paulo Coelho Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
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What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
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I'm human, just like anybody else.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in companies we regulate in Congress, but somehow, our plumbing company crosses some line.
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A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
