Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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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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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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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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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
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You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the mighty ocean in the drop.
