Rahman Baba Quotes
Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I can paint in jail.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
