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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I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.
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Effectively, what we are saying to the governments of Europe is, 'OK, after 300 years, you have left these islands in a pretty bad state. You've left them with terrible developmental challenges, and we believe you have a responsibility to return to the Caribbean and participate in the rebuilding of the Caribbean.'
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.
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Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
