Rumi Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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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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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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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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We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
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Network presidents love to take shots at each other, but they've never been so vocal as they were this summer.
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My fans know me and love me the way I am. I don't want to lie to my fans.
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The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
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I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
