Bulleh Shah Quotes
Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.
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Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
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Although he is disappointed, I know he will step forward and play a really important part in Labour’s future.
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«And the European one?»
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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
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Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality.
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Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.
