Omar Khayyam Quotes
Then to the lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd - 'While you live Drink! - for, once dead, you never shall return'.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
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I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.
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Then to the lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd - 'While you live Drink! - for, once dead, you never shall return'.
