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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In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
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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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What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.
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Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
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Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.
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Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.
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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
