Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
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I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
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I know there are thousands of images of me.
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There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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She soars on her own wings.
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They don't take orders from Arafat. They think for themselves and act for themselves.
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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
