Kahlil Gibran Quotes
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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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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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
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Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
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To make more plans than an explorer or a crook, yet to be infected at the will's very root.
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Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
