Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.
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And this is something that I emphasize wherever I go - democracy does not stop on Election Day. For a real democracy to work, and for a society to thrive and continually improve, it requires that people continue to participate. And there have to be laws in place to protect that space and facilitate people’s ability to participate.
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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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You have yourself to blame.
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
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I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.
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Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.
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It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?
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I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.
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We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
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It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.
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I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.
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I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
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The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
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I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
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I think when we build something we love and that others love, then we have done our job.
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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
