Abdullah ibn Mubarak Quotes
Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
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I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.
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I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
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I'm so excited to be working with 360, not only because I am in love with everything they create but also because each collection always includes the key pieces I look for.
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People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.
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Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great.
