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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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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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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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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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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It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.
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Today, our developed nations live in opulence, excess and waste, with the consequences that our environment is degrading and the climate is wreaked.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
