Abu Nuwas Quotes
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
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Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
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It's a crapshoot. You're dealing with kids, 17 to 21 years old. That's a lot of pressure. Think of all the pressure -- and the money that is bet on it, legally and illegally. It's amazing.
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Each week we usually have one person who's never done the show before. Last year we had close to 60 who'd never done the show before. We're constantly booking new people, sometimes to the consternation of people who live here who do the show regularly.
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I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.
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The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
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I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
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You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!
