Paulo Coelho Quotes

That’s the problem, we do get used to things.

Paulo Coelho

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Success
  • Friend
  • Mountain

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Struggle
  • Happen
  • Most

• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • You
  • Best
  • Worst

• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Religion
  • Recognition

• We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Society
  • Funny
  • Best

• If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • You
  • Joy
  • Write

• A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Man
  • Poetry

• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Impossible
  • Word
  • Fools

• I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Man
  • Playing
  • Intention

• To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Music
  • Politics

• I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Always
  • Red
  • Liked

• My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

  

  Irving Stone
  • World
  • Dream
  • Vision

• I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Show
  • Diverse
  • Mac

• The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Up
  • Important
  • Stop

• When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Energy

• When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

  

  Ken Buck
  • Money

• I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

  

  Bode Miller
  • People

• It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Long
  • Family
  • Way

• That’s the problem, we do get used to things.

  

  Paulo Coelho