Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
Quotes to Explore
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
Barbra Streisand
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Jackie Kennedy
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith
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I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?
Rachel McAdams
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
Tammy Baldwin
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
Rachel Hurd-Wood
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
Queen Victoria
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I think it's a wonderful thing, turning 50. I think everyone should do it at least once.
Elvis Duran
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Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.
Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action - not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.
Frederick William Robertson
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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
Adrienne Monnier
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Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi