Rumi Quotes
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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When I was a kid I used to drink from the tap all the time. I'd run back into the flat all hot and sweaty from playing and didn't even bother putting it in a glass, just turned the tap on and stuck my mouth underneath it. If my mom caught me doing it she used to scold me, but my dad just said that I had to be careful. 'What if a fish jumped out?' he used to say. 'You'd swallow it before you knew it was there.' Dad was always saying stuff like that and it wasn't until I was seventeen that I realised it was because he was stoned all the time.
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I see my beauty in you.
