Rumi Quotes
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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My first vocation was dance.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
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There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.
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In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.
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We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
