Rumi Quotes
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.
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I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.
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I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.
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Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.
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'I have a plan,' said Xaros, 'improbable only in its genius.'
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The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.
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The most emotionally connected I've ever been to a character is Natsuki in 'Summer Wars.'
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It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
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I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.
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If i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow
