Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.
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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
