Rumi Quotes
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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(The Eurozone) resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
