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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OK, Houston we copy that. We'll be a wave off for today.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs.
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Truth is one, single, and it can never be misinterpreted. To know the truth it is essential that whatever human awareness we have got, it has to be expanded. There is something still lacking in that awareness by which we cannot know God, we cannot know the truth.
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
