Rumi Quotes
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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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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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.
