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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Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.
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The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
