Rumi Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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When you have a CEO who is an ex-CMO, that is going to put the marketing tool kit front and center.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.
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An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
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Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
