Khalil Gibran Quotes
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.
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I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.
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When someone forgets himself, this by no means makes him altruistic; when a thinking person forgets himself, he immediately also forgets his fellowman, he loses himself and his humanity by becoming engrossed in his subject. Thus he is in a sense more contemplative than a feeling person.
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I'm a man who doesn't even have a mobile!
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.