Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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I'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: 'Wow, that's what it's about. That's how you change the world.' And then I watched that disintegrate in front of my eyes, and it was very discouraging.
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If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
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All religions. All this singing. One sone. Peace be with you.
