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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Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.
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One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.
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Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.
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If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.
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Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
