Omar Khayyam Quotes
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
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Once a champion, always a champion.
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
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There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
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I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever.
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I've been on stage since I was eight.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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It takes a little more persistence to get up and go the distanceI'm not giving inI'm not missing outI'm not giving up on implausible dreams - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)
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A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
