Bayazid Bastami Quotes
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.
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I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.
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I am definitely a beach person. In fact, I am so much a beach person that my wife is allergic to beaches now.
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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
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What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.
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Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
