Rumi Quotes
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
-
We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
-
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
-
Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
-
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
-
As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
-
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
-
Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
-
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
-
Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
-
I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
-
Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
-
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
-
I read everything and anything. I love books.
-
I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
-
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
-
I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
-
It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
-
I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness.
-
There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
-
You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
-
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
-
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
