Rumi Quotes
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Many of my clients have become close friends, and that informs the clothing I design for them. Julianna Margulies was introduced to me by her publicist many years ago, and we've been good friends ever since.
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Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing.
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But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
