Rumi Quotes
You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
Quotes to Explore
-
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
-
I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
-
When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
-
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
-
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
-
These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
-
I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
-
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
-
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
-
I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
-
I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
-
The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
-
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
-
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
-
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
-
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
-
When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
-
I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
-
How you manage change can make all the difference.
-
The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
-
My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.
-
The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
-
When you're in a rehearsal room, it's like getting into a car and going on a long journey with everyone's stuff in the back. If you keep stopping the car and going, 'Are you sure we want to go?' and think, 'This is really daunting,' you will get frightened, so you just have to keep ploughing through it.
-
You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
