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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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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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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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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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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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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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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There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
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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 just want to play music with a band, live.
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There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty and felt that nobody could know I was gay, I was having sex with strangers in public parks. I don't think it was evil exactly, but it wasn't so great either. There was nobody particularly benefiting from it, except, I suppose, to the extent that it gave some pleasure to me and perhaps whomever I was with.
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I'm awkward around girls.
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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.
