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.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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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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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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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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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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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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I can understand how people who don't really follow baseball can look at 'dead arm' and think the absolute worst. Basically, a dead arm is when your arm kind of feels a little heavy, kind of feels weak, and basically, it's just muscular fatigue.
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You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
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During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
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I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.
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If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.
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It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
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Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.
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Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.
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Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.
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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.
