Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.
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'Tough' is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.
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Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister.
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The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.
