Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi Quotes
Know yourself: a cloud drifting before your sun. Cut yourself off from your senses and behold your sun of intimacy.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.
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The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.
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Know yourself: a cloud drifting before your sun. Cut yourself off from your senses and behold your sun of intimacy.
