Khalil Gibran Quotes

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

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• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
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• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
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• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
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• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Women
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• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
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• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Small
  • Like
  • Greek

• If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Me

• I love being in a courtroom.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Love
  • Being
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• My education was very tough.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Education
  • Very
  • Tough

• I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Value
  • Performance

• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  

  O. Henry
  • Live
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• I am not a good cue card reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Reader
  • Card
  • Cue

• Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Died

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Why
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• Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Me
  • Training
  • Courage

• You can either ask the question or experience the answer.

  

  Sri Bhagavan
  • Experience
  • Question

• I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Writing
  • Enjoy
  • Hopefully

• Out, you impostors!Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skillIs to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.

  

  Philip Massinger
  • Men
  • Sick
  • Cheating

• The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Long
  • Country
  • House

• I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we'll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they're all sports mad, so I don't stand a chance.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • House
  • Lust