Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.
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A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.
