Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Zoe Kravitz -
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
Barbara Kingsolver -
We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
Vicente Fox -
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta -
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
Karen Mills -
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Nawal El Saadawi
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
Floyd Abrams -
With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro -
These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
Ferdinand Marcos -
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie -
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers -
Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
Laetitia Casta
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
Rachel Brosnahan -
When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
Natalie Dormer -
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Patricia Polacco -
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
Samantha Shannon -
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken -
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
Katey Sagal -
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.
C. S. Lewis -
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
Seneca the Younger -
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi