Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
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When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
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Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.
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One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
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Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
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Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.
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If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
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Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.
