Rumi Quotes
Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
Quotes to Explore
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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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've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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I love comic books and I love anime.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
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Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
