Said Nursi Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
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I like to take my own time, and I don't like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.
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When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and structure it in this way.' And if they ask a question, and you have a bad answer, first time, maybe they'll be okay with it. Third time, they're going to say, 'This is a complete waste of time. I'm going away.'
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
