Paulo Coelho Quotes

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Paulo Coelho

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• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • School
  • Me
  • Dad

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.

  

  Iman
  • Day
  • End
  • Legacy

• I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Die
  • Pop Music

• We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Character
  • Communication

• I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Classic

• For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Sexy

• Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Just

• There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Silence
  • End
  • Before

• But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Brain
  • Goes

• If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Winner

• Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Business
  • Career
  • Me

• My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.

  

  Laura Dern
  • School
  • Band
  • Son

• Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Today
  • New York

• I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

  

  Paulo Costanzo
  • People
  • Up

• In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • City

• Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Information
  • Office

• It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Suicide

• Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

  

  Paulo Coelho