Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
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I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.
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I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.
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I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
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I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
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Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.
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Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.
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I had to learn that this whole God thing isn't just this big religion. It's really that He wants this relationship with us on a personal level.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.
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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
