Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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Only Love can explain itself.
