Hafez Quotes
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
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I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?
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137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
