Idries Shah Quotes
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
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The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Immigration is tough. My daughter-in-law is going through the immigration process as we speak.
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...success part of story of fifty years of Independence … Maintaining and strengthening political democracy at various levels has moved to new levels. Conducting successive free and fair elections, evolving and developing institutions like a relatively independent press, functioning opposition parties offering role choice, an independent and high calibre judiciary, free public debate which sometimes comes under assault, defying freedom of expression and creativity and secularism as the basic feature of our constitutional and social well being.
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Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
