Agha Shahid Ali Quotes
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
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I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.
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Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone. They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on. And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song. Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long.
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It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.
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Peace is far more preferable to war.… I believe that peace is the only path to true security. … And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations.
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They make a desolation and call it peace.
