Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Rabindranath Tagore

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• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

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• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  

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• I learn my songs by ear.

  

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• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

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• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

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• A man really determines himself by what he does.

  

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• I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

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• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  

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• In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

  

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• There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!

  

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• Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

  

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• Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

  

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• I'm certainly not saying anything new, and I'm not even saying anything all that different from what everyone else I know is saying right now - I'm saying what millions of people are saying. I'm just saying it publicly.

  

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• Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Desire
  • Joy
  • Illumination