Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
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In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world.
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Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
