Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
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Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it.
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How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.
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I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.
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The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
