Rumi Quotes
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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I'm a citizen of the world.
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That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.
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Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?"
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On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
