Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether it's something small they'd like to do over a weekend with friends, or it's the film they've always wanted to make, whatever.
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.
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I think they felt intimidated at some point in this playoff. ...Our big guys have been effective. ... They just wanted to make a stand and make a statement.
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I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.
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In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm.
