Idries Shah Quotes
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
Ted Cruz -
When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
Tavi Gevinson -
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens -
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Takeshi Kitano
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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?
Famke Janssen -
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
Taylor Swift -
Good material is good material.
J. K. Simmons -
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.
Yuri Milner -
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.
Kate Mara -
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken
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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.
K. Eric Drexler -
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
Rand Paul -
As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
Katee Sackhoff -
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
Camille Paglia -
My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
B. B. King -
I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
Young Jeezy
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When neither our fellows nor our gods spoil our plans, we spoil them ourselves.
Gene Wolfe -
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde -
Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.
Christine de Pizan -
Lay your sleeping head, my love Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral; But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie: Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.
W. H. Auden -
Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.
Li Lu -
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
Idries Shah