Rumi Quotes
Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
Quotes to Explore
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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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 watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
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I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
