Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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Usually I like to work out in the morning before I eat. After the workout, I like to eat a banana and definitely some oatmeal for a little bit extra boost.
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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
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We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.
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Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
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I had to figure out my own faith. That was something I figured out a while ago when I was 18. But I can always stand on the fact that my dad has been a great example for me. Beyond that, building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.
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A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.
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I suppose you could say I was always having to defend my style of captaincy. I did get a lot of criticism - some of it justified, other times as part of a tactic.
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Better is a book than a well built house.
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Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. You will not be led astray.
