Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.
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My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
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You can do whatever you want with my work.
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I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
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I think that what we should do is have short, clipped conversations on the telephone so someone can always get us, not talking about inane stuff and having someone trying to get you. I also think we've just got to be more sensitive toward other people and not call them at night if you know they've been working.
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Each night the moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars
