Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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I don't think we're wasting people in space.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.
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Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
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I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.
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Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.
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The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
