Rumi Quotes
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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These changes are part of what keeps me interested and excited. Life won't let me keep coming at it from the same angle.
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.
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Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
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I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.
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What of the tale of Balaam's ass speaking to him, probably in Hebrew? Is it true, or is it a fable? Many asses have spoken, and doubtless some in Hebrew, but they have not been that breed of asses. Is salvation to depend on a belief in a monstrosity like this?
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Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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You will find my last words in the blue folder.
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There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
