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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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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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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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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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 was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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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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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.
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I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.
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What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
