Uthman ibn Affan Quotes
If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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I had a really great performance with Steven Tyler in the movie 'Be Cool.' I performed 'Cryin',' so we recorded the song beforehand. But I didn't get to meet him until I hit the stage with him, and we had a live performance with 30,000 people in the audience, and that was for the movie.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord
