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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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
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Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
