Omar Khayyam Quotes

Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?

Omar Khayyam

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• Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

  

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• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

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• I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.

  

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• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  

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• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

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• A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

  

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• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

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• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

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• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

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• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  

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• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

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• Straight people are everywhere!

  

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• The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

  

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• I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'

  

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• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

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• I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

  

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• My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

  

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• Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

  

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• Ich werde im Himmel hören! (I will hear in heaven!)

  

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• Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Soul
  • Heaven