Rumi Quotes
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.
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This is Phobos... Its mean density is known, and it is consistent with organic matter. Deimos... same story.
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'…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
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I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn't be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I'm a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me.
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I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.
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I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.
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Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
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Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.
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Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.
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I don't have anything fresh in terms of raw foods or salad after 4 P.M. And no food after 7 P.M.
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My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
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The potential of any new technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors. (p. 210)
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Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
