Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
