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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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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TARP became so politicized that having money from it was almost like a scarlet letter. There were debates over compensation, worry that the rules were going to get changed. All the banks were desperately rushing to get that money back as soon as possible - in part, so they could pay themselves bonuses without any government restrictions.
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Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
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I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
