Idries Shah Quotes
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I dress for men.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.
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We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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I remember my first kisses with a lot of people, and they're rad experiences. And you don't have to really take it to that next level because that's what keeps it exciting.
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So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.
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The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
