Saadi Quotes
There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
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Only in movement do we find the true essence of things. Today we can no longer believe in permanent laws, defined religions, durable architecture or eternal kingdoms. Immutability does not exist. All is movement. All is static.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
