Idries Shah Quotes
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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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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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Good material is good material.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.
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Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.
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I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.
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It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
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Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
