Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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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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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
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In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.
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Some primal termite knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good! And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
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I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.
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Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent
