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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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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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.
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Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.
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If it wasn't for the Porcaro brothers, I don't know where I'd be right now. My life would be completely different.
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I'm acting in a new show on NBC with Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, which is definitely the scariest thing I've ever done.
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
