Paulo Coelho Quotes
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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.
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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.'
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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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.
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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.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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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.
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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.
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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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.
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I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'
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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.
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
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Believe in yourself and know that you're strong enough to get through just about anything.
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I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
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I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person.
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Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.
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I'd worn Joe's Jeans since I was young, so it was cool to be able to reinvent the brand and be able to be part of it.
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The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.
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That’s the problem, we do get used to things.
