Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.

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• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

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• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

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• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

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• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  

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• I like that Barack got that job.

  

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• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

  

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• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

  

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• My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

  

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• Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

  

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• I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.

  

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• You don't know where life takes you.

  

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• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

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• While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

  

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• I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.

  

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• But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

  

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• Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.

  

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• English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.

  

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• I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

  

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• For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

  

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• Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

  

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• The price of an e-book is a lot less than the price that we're charging for a hardcover book. It's about the same as we charge for a paperback. And that means a different revenue stream.

  

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• The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • World
  • Happiness