Farid al-Din Attar Quotes
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'
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Within the body there is played
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It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.
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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
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I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.
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The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.
