Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
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By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
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How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
