Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.
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The European Union remains a staunch supporter of the ICC and is committed to full co-operation on the prevention of serious crimes falling under the jurisdiction of the Court.
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There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.
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I kind of realized that when I take more pitches I put better swings on them.
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For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.
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There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.
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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
