Rumi Quotes
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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Sex is good. Everybody does it and everybody should.
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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
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Would you like to be famous? In what way?
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The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
