Rumi Quotes
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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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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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
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I never thought about being famous.
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I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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The rise of democracy was driven by the citizens' desire to escape from the paternalistic and arbitrary charity of those with money. They accomplished this by replacing charity with a fair, balanced, arm's-length system of public obligation. The principle tool of that obligation was taxation.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
