Rumi Quotes
And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
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Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
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You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
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We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.
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Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.
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I saw the tape and I saw that I hit him. It wasn't intentional. When he hit me, I thought he was crazy. But I just want to say I'm sorry. You know how I play. It wasn't intentional.
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Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.
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And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.
