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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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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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
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Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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I need to acknowledge the toll certain parts of my life are taking on me. I have to do that, even if it temporarily paralyzes me to suppress it. Otherwise, paradoxically, I can't go on. When I can reside in that, and recoup, then I can continue. In a strange way it's a survival method.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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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.
