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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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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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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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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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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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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Here I stand, I'm your man.
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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country - energy and malaise.
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Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.
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There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.
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You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
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The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.
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A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.
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I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.
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The first music I loved on my own was punk.
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Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.
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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
