Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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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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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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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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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
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A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.
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A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
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It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
