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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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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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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Acting was something I had to do.
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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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I love animals and plants and sometimes even people.
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Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.
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I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
