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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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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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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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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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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It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.'
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Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.
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I am fortunate enough to find opportunities that have a lot of presence.
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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.
