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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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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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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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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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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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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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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It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.
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I need instant gratification.
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Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
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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.
