Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I'm curvy.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!
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I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
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A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
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Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.
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The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.
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I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
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As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one-it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.
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Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
