Rumi Quotes
Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.
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I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
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Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
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I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.
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I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
