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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Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.
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It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.
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When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
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I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
