Paulo Coelho Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action . . . they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.
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I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
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'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
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I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.
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So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
