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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Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.
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I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
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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.
