Rumi Quotes
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to discuss not only Kaliningrad, but also the eastern lands of Germany, the city of Lvov, a former part of Poland, and so on, and so forth. There are also Hungary and Romania on the list.
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
