Khalil Gibran Quotes
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Quotes to Explore
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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His own government, suing him, that's not Chocolate Sundae!
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.
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The underlying point held; experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
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I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
