Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
Inara George -
That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
Adam Jones -
Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
Feng Zhang -
I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
Yuvraj Singh -
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
Lara St. John -
On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
Candace Parker
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
Umera Ahmad -
We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
Wadah Khanfar -
I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
Nat King Cole -
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
Randall Terry -
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Mae West -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
Rachael Taylor -
Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
Vicki Delany -
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
Natalie Babbitt -
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
Abel Ferrara -
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
Zebulon Pike -
My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
August Strindberg -
I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.
Varg Vikernes Burzum -
I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
Olga Kurylenko -
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work.
Edward Elgar -
No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi