Alan Macfarlane Quotes
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.
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Human beings are religious animals.
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I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.
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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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The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.
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The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
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A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.
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One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.
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The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony.
