Rumi Quotes
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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You can't just get in a boat with someone and be great straight away. It takes a lot of time to get used to each other. You need to learn how the other person reacts to certain situations.
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
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I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.
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Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom of a deeply-involved citizenry thinking independently and holding the government to the highest standards.
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
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Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
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Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
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When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
