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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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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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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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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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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
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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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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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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.
