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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On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.
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My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.
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Where will it all end? In the destruction of all other command for the benefit of one alone - that of the state. In each man's absolute freedom from every family and social authority, a freedom the price of which is complete submission to the state. In the complete equality as between themselves of all citizens, paid for by their equal abasement before the power of their absolute master - the state. In the disappearance of every constraint which does not emanate from the state, and in the denial of every pre-eminence which is not approved by the state. In a word, it ends in the atomization of society, and in the rupture of every private tie linking man and man, whose only bond is now their common bondage to the state. The extremes of individualism and socialism meet: that was their predestined course.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
