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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Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.
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I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.
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Normally, at a debate or a town hall, I would be quick to say to someone, 'That was rude,' or, 'We're going to try to keep it civil here,' or, 'Let's not have personal attacks.'
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I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
