Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.
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Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.
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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
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I've just kind of evolved in the way I think. I learned to just enjoy it. I feel really lucky to do what I do, be in the situation I'm in, and I love it. I'm going to have fun out there and trust my training and not worry, because I've figured out the worry doesn't help.
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I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."
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You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
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If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
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Question your tea spoons.
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When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."
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What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored just as we would have, seeing a distant hill, climbing it, and showing us the vista from the summit. And she did it in a way that allowed everyone on Earth to be part of the adventure.
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When I am with you, everything is prayer.
