Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.
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I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
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I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.
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From the point of view of technique, I liked there to be internal lines in objects, I mean that instead of circumscribing forms, they animate the insides of things-the inside of formless and non-delimited areas. They function as internal textures and not primarily as contours.
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Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent
