Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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'Humans of New York' wasn't the result of a fully finished idea that I thought of and then executed; it was an evolution. There were hundreds of tiny evolutions that came from me loving photography.
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I have to have a passion in my life.
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Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?
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Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.
