Rumi Quotes
I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.
Quotes to Explore
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
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The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
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I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.
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I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"
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People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.
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What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.
