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.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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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.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.
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It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
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You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.
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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.
