Rumi Quotes
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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I don’t answer to anyone.
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We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
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With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.
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You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
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What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's.
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Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.
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When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.
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Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.
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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's ther.
