Rumi Quotes
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman.
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Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
