Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
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I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.
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With a doughnut in each hand, anything is possible.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
