Rumi Quotes
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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Be suspicious of what you want.
