Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.
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It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.
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The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.
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In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
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The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
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When you ask people why they were evicted, the big reason is nonpayment of rent. They can't afford to keep a roof over their heads. Utilities are a big part of the story too, while the third leg on the table is the lack of government help with housing.
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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
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The black comedians meeting? Oh yeah, we hold one every year at Eddie Murphy's house.
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Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
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At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
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I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began to seem appealing to me.
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I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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My cousin came over to my house one day just to fool around and we said - he said, some day we should start a rock n' roll group. We could all get together. And I said, I know I guy named Al Jardine who plays bass and could probably sing good. You know. So we went from there.
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The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.
