Ali Khamenei Quotes
Don’t allow the colonialists to introduce their terrorists as representatives of Islam (January 21, 2015) 1
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
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My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.
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The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
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I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
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We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.
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I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.
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I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
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Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
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We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
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Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.
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I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.
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Peace is the wait of the patient soul.
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Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
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We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.
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Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home
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Don’t allow the colonialists to introduce their terrorists as representatives of Islam (January 21, 2015) 1
