Rumi Quotes
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.
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My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.
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I've never been punched in the face, so I didn't know it would hurt so much!
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I love heels, and as a size 36, I've accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford's golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
