Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
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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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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.
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Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent
