Abdullah Yusuf Ali Quotes
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.
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There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.
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Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.
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It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
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Another part of the challenge was to bring back things that you've forgotten about and maybe some things you haven't forgotten about, recontextualize them and have the series make sense.
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If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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When snow melts, what does it become?' It becomes water, of course' Wrong! It becomes spring!
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On the street luge side, you need to have a solid core and balance. A healthy body is a must in that sport if you want to compete for wins, and my diet has certainly enabled me to make the most of myself.
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What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.
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To Allah we belong and to Him is our return.
