Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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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'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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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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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.
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The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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Do you think the heart needs love to keep on beating?
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the inner pull of what you really love.
