Khalil Gibran Quotes
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Quotes to Explore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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When you're the lead, as I was in 'Offender,' you don't have to be perfect all the time; you've got time to get it right.
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The shows are the main way our lives have changed.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
