Rumi Quotes
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings And free your soul of jealousy, You and everyone around you Would fly up like doves.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.
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Where the presence of truth should be possible, it can be possible solely under the condition of the recognition of myth—that is, the recognition of its crushing indifference to truth.
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The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.
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Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
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Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.
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People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings And free your soul of jealousy, You and everyone around you Would fly up like doves.
