Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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Most men are fragile.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.
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Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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I think part of the reason Trump behaves the way he behaves is that he is a walking example of projection. Whatever he's doing and whatever he thinks is happening he will accuse somebody else of. And there are examples during the campaign when he did just that, like when he called publicly on Russia to hack my personal emails. He knew they were trying to do whatever they could to discredit me with emails, so there's obviously a trail there, but I don't know that in our system we have any means of doing that.
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Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.
