Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
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You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.
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People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!
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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
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Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
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My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.
