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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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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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 try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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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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Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'
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The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
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We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.
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The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
