Paulo Coelho Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
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I will assert that U.S. economic growth is in lockstep with science and technology and, by extension, science education.
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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
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A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.