Coleman Barks Quotes
Be loyal to your daily practice. Keep working. And keep knocking on the door. As you'll remember, it is said in one of Rumi's most pithy moments that the door we're knocking on opens from the inside.

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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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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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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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I enjoy three meals a day, and 90 per cent of what I eat is vegetarian and homemade. I occasionally eat non-vegetarian, and chicken preparations are my favourite.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.
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Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
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I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.
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Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
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Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you.
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Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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Be loyal to your daily practice. Keep working. And keep knocking on the door. As you'll remember, it is said in one of Rumi's most pithy moments that the door we're knocking on opens from the inside.