Rumi Quotes
Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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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 don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
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At that stage my heart ruled my head'.
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'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'
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Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest?
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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The evolution at 'Teen Vogue' is not a result of dinosaurs in a board room coming up with a strategy to reach the kids.
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I always try to slip healthy things by my kids. I give them sweet potato French fries and fake chicken nuggets.
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We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.
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Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
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I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
