Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.
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My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.
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I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
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To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.
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As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
