Rumi Quotes
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
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The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
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To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
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It was here at the age of seventeen that I suspended my religious inquiries.
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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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One should never be so formal that one loses life, but one should never be so informal that one becomes without form of any kind.
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Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.
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I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.
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Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.
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Dennis Rodman says North Korea is 'not that bad'. Dennis Rodman is deeply stupid.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
