Agha Shahid Ali Quotes
In the heart's wild space lies the space of wilderness. What won't one lose, what home one won't give forever!
Quotes to Explore
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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Horns really make a good band. They always create excitement when it's needed. They give the music a broader spread. It doesn't have to be all guitars and keyboards all the time.
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Green synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and not even know it, because the ball still gets airborne. Practice nets are awful, too. Swing a weighted club instead.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.
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By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
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In the heart's wild space lies the space of wilderness. What won't one lose, what home one won't give forever!
