Rumi Quotes
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
Adam McKay
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
Carlos Slim
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
Daniel Bryan
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
Fiona Apple
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Barry Eichengreen
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
Eddie Redmayne
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. Forester
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
Iris DeMent
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I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.
Dana Davis
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I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.
Nadine Velazquez
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War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
P. J. O'Rourke
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What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.
Walker Percy
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
Larry Wall
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He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!
Arthur Miller
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The ancient owls' nest must have burned.Hastily, all alone,a glistening armadillo left the scene,rose-flecked, head down, tail down
Elizabeth Bishop
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You come to the city, and you have a chance to find out who you really are.
Patti Scialfa
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor E. Frankl
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What shall we say of the Intelligence that plans all this? Can the Creator be less than the creature? Shall we not say that Intelligence is indestructible, and its measure is its Power to adapt means to ends? Intelligence, Matter, Energy - nature's trinity in her manifestations.
Elisha Gray
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. Edwards Deming
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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte
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Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.
Rumi