Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.
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Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
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If a democratic society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.
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The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
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In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.
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Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.
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There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.
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When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
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I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.
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It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.
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No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.
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The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction.
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The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.
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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
