Idries Shah Quotes
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I drink a lot of water.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.
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I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.
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First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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The only thing that changes in my novels are the locations.
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Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
