Rumi Quotes
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.
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Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I hate downtime.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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I really feel that a concert is a place where you can bring up topics, and you can actually discuss them and feel them and have a great time.
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I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.
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The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
