Khalil Gibran Quotes
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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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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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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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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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
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I am permanently relaxed.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.
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Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.
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I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.
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We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.
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I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
