Hafez Quotes
The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I want to have a long career.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
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Every film is like a baby for me; it's like my own child. I feel protective and aggressive each time my film hit theatres.
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There's this idea in America that you can be whatever you want. That remains an ideal in terms of how you dress too - when you go shopping, you try on all possible selves and then decide.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.
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Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
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The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
