Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
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There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.
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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
