Paulo Coelho Quotes
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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I always feel ill-prepared for commentaries and it had been so long I was afraid I'd forget everything that happened on the film. But having everybody come together for it was really great. It was like a high school reunion. We all reminisced and just had a great time.
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I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.
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By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.
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I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.
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When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
