Rumi Quotes
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.
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Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
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Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
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My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
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I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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All this pain. all this crying. it wasn't that she hadn't expected it. she just underestimated it. it felt like a heavy, dark blanket that had been pulled across all of them. she hadn't know that it would make it difficult to breathe. she hadn't guess that it would seem so enveloping. and so total, and so permanent.
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My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
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An American Government cannot permit Americans to starve.
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I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.
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I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
