Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
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The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
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It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.
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I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
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The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.
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My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
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I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.
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The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.
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A mellow understanding of life and of human nature is, and always has been, the Chinese ideal of character, and from that understanding other qualities are derived, such as pacifism, contentment, calm and strength of endurance which distinguish the Chinese character.
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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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I'm not in this game to make the most money.
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The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.
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It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.
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'Breaking Bad' - when I started watching that show, I thought it was terrific. I love the way it was shot. I love the writing. I love the arc of Bryan Cranston's character. I just thought that was just really, really a wonderful, wonderful show.
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
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Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
