Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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The world is always terrible.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.
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There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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She with her eyes my heart does bind, She with her voice might captivate my mind.
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I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'
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The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.
