Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
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You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the mighty ocean in the drop.
