Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
Quotes to Explore
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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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 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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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!
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My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'
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It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.
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If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
