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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I want to play interesting women.
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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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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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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'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.
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I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
