Rumi Quotes
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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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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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
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I want to make people laugh.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.
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Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.
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The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.
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Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
