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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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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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.
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Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
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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.
