Idries Shah Quotes
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
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Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
