Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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There are some people who think that at some time in the future, China may challenge us for supremacy in the Pacific, and therefore, what do we do today to prevent that? And you, of course, will say that we will try to thwart any economic progress in China. If we engaged in such a policy, we would turn a billion-plus people into nationalist opponents of the United States.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
