Paulo Coelho Quotes
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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.
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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.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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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.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
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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.
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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.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
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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.
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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.
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I am extremely pained by the methodology adopted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in coming to some figures which have no basis whatsoever. Their exercise was fraught with very serious errors.
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I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj's 'Feeling Myself.'
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Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
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Hey, which one of them is supposed to be your boyfriend?” Stark asked me. Even in the terrible shape he was in, he caught my glance with his. His voice was scratchy, and he sounded scarily weak, but his eyes sparkled with humor. I am!” Heath and Erik said together.
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
