Al-Shafi‘i Quotes
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
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I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.
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I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
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When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.
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If you're in a commercial studio, you've got to be out by the end of the day, and it can be paralyzing, but if you have your own studio you move fast because you don't care. If you don't care, you can be patient, and also think fast.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
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Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.
