Rumi Quotes
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
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I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
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Revelation, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
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I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.
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It took up until a month and a half ago to be completely finished. If you condensed all the (recording) time, it took two and a half, three weeks, but stretched over two years.
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This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.
