Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
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In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives.
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Il connaît l’univers, et ne se connaît pas.
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Steve set the tone for them and everyone else just followed.
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When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
