Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.
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I'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It's my touchstone. It's the thing I never want to overanalyze.
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I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.
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I go to bed early, and normally before I do, I have a tea - it's a special tea that my doula gave me, and it takes about 25 minutes to make!
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I love Lucille Ball. But you don't call that Shakespeare. It's just entertainment, you know. And if you like that, then go have a ball, have fun.
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Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.
