Rumi Quotes
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
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People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.
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We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.
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If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
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When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
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A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.
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I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead of a window. I thought it was kind of a cool idea.
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Play your part creatively in all the strugglesOf men of your time, therebyHelping, with the seriousness of study and the cheerfulness of knowledgeTo turn the struggle into common experience andJustice into a passion.
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Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn
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Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
