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 didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.
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I plan my time to a 'T.' I plan when I am going to sleep; I plan when I am going to relax. I obviously leave time to have spontaneous life experiences - I think that's really important. But so much of it is setting up you mental energy in the right way to get the most out of your day and time.
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What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
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I couldn't stand the thought of not succeeding; failure was more than I could deal with.
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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
