Rumi Quotes
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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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.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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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?
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I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
