Rumi Quotes
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I just want to stay professional.
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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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'If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.'
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Joy is the best makeup.
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I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.
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There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.
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As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
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Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart.
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
