Rumi Quotes
Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
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Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
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There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
