Rumi Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.
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Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
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On Yom Kippur The rabbi intones that today is the day that God will put your name in the Book of Life... or the Book of DEATH. I'm five, and I'm going, 'Uhhh, what the fuck is that? The book of WHAT?!?' Death? Death was not anything that had ever occurred to me. My greatest fear was that my parents were going to leave me in a grocery store.
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
