Idries Shah Quotes
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Music is about the performance.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.
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I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.
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Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.
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There are some things that are sacred and should be kept close.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
