Rumi Quotes

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

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• I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

  

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• That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

  

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• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  

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• Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

  

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• We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

  

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• Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

  

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• In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

  

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• I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.

  

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• I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

  

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• If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.

  

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• I definitely want to work in Hindi films.

  

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• One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.

  

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• If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.

  

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• I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.

  

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• It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

  

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• A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

  

  Chloe Zhao
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• I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

  

  Lana Del Rey
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• Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

  

  Anna Paquin
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• This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

  

  Rumi
  • Poetry
  • Say
  • Quiet