Rumi Quotes
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
Sam Shepard -
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Nate Berkus -
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.
Malcolm X -
Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle -
People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
Iman
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I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.
Larry Wilmore -
Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
Waris Dirie -
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
Edsger Dijkstra -
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.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
Charles Darwin -
In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.
Andrew Tobias
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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.
Bob Graham -
When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
David Horowitz -
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.
Asa Butterfield -
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
James Buchan -
I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.
Bryan Cranston -
You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
Kelly Lynch
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Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.
Rowan Williams -
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
Harvey Cox -
When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
Margaret Stohl -
The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues.
John Sununu -
I've been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not if, I was going to write a paranormal series. I dipped my toe in the genre by incorporating a mystical curse into the 'MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy.'
Kresley Cole -
The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
Rumi