Rumi Quotes
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
Quotes to Explore
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role. I choose a lot of greens, proteins, and fats, and I like to be really active.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.
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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
