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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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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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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The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
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Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a lot to cut.
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He could chafe against the rich and privileged but he acknowledged that the army had taken him from the gutter and put an officer's sash round his waiste and Sharpe could think of no other job that would offer a low-born bastard on the run from the law the chance of rank and responsibility.
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Now, as far as I know, nobody has ever put up the U.S.'s nuclear missiles on the Internet. I mean, it's not something I've heard about.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
