Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?
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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.
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No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.
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You can't disbar unethical journalists.
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Nobody I know would have expected me to marry Will, and nobody he knows would have expected him to marry me because we are so opposite. Yet we're perfect for each other.
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One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.
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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
