Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Do you not remember me, Nicodemus, who believed in naught but the laws and decrees and was in continual subjection to observances? And behold me now, a man who walks with life and laughs with the sun from the first moment it smiles upon the mountain until it yields itself to bed behind the hills.
Quotes to Explore
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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I got to go back and perform 'God Made Girls' on 'The Voice,' which was awesome. I also got invited to sing on the 'Grand Ole Opry,' which was another unbelievable moment.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Women who have understood fashion and style for so long have always known it's not about having more pieces. It's about having the right pieces and having the pieces that are of a great quality and look like you know what you're doing. You don't have to have a million things on.
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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
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The government simply waits for farmers to grow their crops - nine months of growing grapes, then two to three weeks of drying them in the sun. Then it takes away a part of that crop and stores it in warehouses around California.
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I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.
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Do you not remember me, Nicodemus, who believed in naught but the laws and decrees and was in continual subjection to observances? And behold me now, a man who walks with life and laughs with the sun from the first moment it smiles upon the mountain until it yields itself to bed behind the hills.
