Rumi Quotes
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
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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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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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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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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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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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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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Many are called but few get up.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.
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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
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Dirk is like the German Moses, invincible and inspiring. That is why 'His Name Is Dirk' must be the Official Fan Song for Dirk Nowitzki.
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'
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If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
