Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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I'm a lunatic.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'
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Be prepared and be honest.
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When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.
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The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
