Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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I am definitely a person of color.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.
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Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.
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There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.
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I don't think the narrative I was stuck in - the 'black' designer category - was going to go away anytime soon.
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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
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When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.
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The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
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There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.
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I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
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The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
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Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
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The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'
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You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.
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If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.
