Paulo Coelho Quotes
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
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There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
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Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.
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It’s these guys in the Ivy League schools who get used to obeying women. They’re sedentary guys. It’s ironic that you’re getting the biggest bitching about men from the schools where the men are just eunuchs and bookworms.
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.
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Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?
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Have faith in the magic and miracles of life, for only those that do get to experience them.
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I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.
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My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.
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I'm not a person that socializes very well.
