Rumi Quotes
A heart filled with desire for sweetness and tender souls must not waste itself with unsavory matters.
Quotes to Explore
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I've always liked new writing.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.
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There was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity.
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...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.
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A heart filled with desire for sweetness and tender souls must not waste itself with unsavory matters.
