Paulo Coelho Quotes

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

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• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

  

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• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

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• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  

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• When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

  

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• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

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• Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

  

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• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

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• When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

  

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• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

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• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

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• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  

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• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

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• Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

  

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• Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

  

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• My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Connection