Rumi Quotes
Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!
Quotes to Explore
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
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People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
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Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
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That's hard for us to swallow. It's going to be hard for them to swallow. At the same time, we all live in Wake County. Something's got to give.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
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Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!
