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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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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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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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I was pretty obnoxious as a kid.
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Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett – I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!
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It had been a long dull evening, with only the thought of leaving the party early to look forward to.
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The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They may be watching what's on the screen. But when the songs are playing in their mind's eye, they're actually watching a movie.
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That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate
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Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
