Rumi Quotes
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
Quotes to Explore
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
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One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'
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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
