Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.
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Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.
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The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.
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Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.
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I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.
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If I'm lucky enough to have the chance to play a character, I'm going to give it my all. Play my position and give it 100%.
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My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
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In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.
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Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
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I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.
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I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
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This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.
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Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams.
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Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
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The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.
