Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
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I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.
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Many of the criticisms about McDonald's are false. We are keen to provide people with as much nutritional information as possible to help them manage their diets.
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A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.
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From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.
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I always wanted children, to be a dad. That was as important to me as being an actor.
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.
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Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
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No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.
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I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.
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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
