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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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
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The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
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Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
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How frightening it must be to have your own independent counsel and staff appointed, with nothing else to do but to investigate you until investigation is no longer worthwhile.
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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
