Rumi Quotes
We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.
Quotes to Explore
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.
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It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
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Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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We've been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don't want someone who will decide those issues for us - but decide them 'our' way. If we did, a White House bureaucrat with good horse sense might be just the ticket.
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You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.
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If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.
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'True Detective' did change my career.
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Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
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We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.
