Rumi Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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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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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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Love is not love that doesn’t love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars.
