Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
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It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.
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I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure...
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The cock does not crow till it has thrice flapped its wings; the parrot in moving among boughs never puts its feet excepting where it has first put its beak. Vows are not made till Hope is dead.
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Nobody wants to say, at least not for publication, that we live in a society that cares as much about the humanities as it cares about the color of the rain in Tashkent.
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When I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in a tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are. So if Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that. But let me tell you about myself. I'm a straight shooter and I'll go right to the heart of the matter.
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You are not my high school crush, idiot.” “Great. I can die happy, then.
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It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
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Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.
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It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.
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Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
