Khalil Gibran Quotes
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
