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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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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I drank too much, only champagne.
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While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
