Rumi Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
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The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
