Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
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Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
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I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
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When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
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I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.
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I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'
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When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.
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It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.
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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
