Rumi Quotes
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
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Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.
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I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
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I never read the tabloids.
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How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll either wait for you in the Goddess’s meadow, or she’ll be reborn and her soul will find you again during this lifetime. You can bear it because you know that spirit never really ends-we never really end.
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You should always judge a book by its lovers.
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In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.
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Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.
