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'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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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 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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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
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For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.
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That's why my work is now more powerful and less arbitrary, as if seen by another person, and illuminated from outside.
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I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
