Khalil Gibran Quotes
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
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Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.
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I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.