Rumi Quotes
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.
Quotes to Explore
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
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I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to 'kill or be killed.'
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!
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It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.
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Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
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Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.
