Paulo Coelho Quotes
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
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Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
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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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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
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I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.
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To be extraordinarily happy and to have no concern for money drives some people nuts.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
