Rumi Quotes
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
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I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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I don't really like to promote anything, but I will promote things I believe in and things that work.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
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I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
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People need to treat animals like they would treat a kid. You have to take care of it, make sure they are happy and they have anything they need. If you don’t have the time, then you don’t need an animal. … I want people to be aware of what is around them. Just because they don’t want to deal with it, doesn’t mean they can shut it out.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Yeah, come on & let the good times rollWe're gonna stay here till we soothe our souls.If it take all night long.
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We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
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Each night the moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars
