Idries Shah Quotes
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Just as a fan and a consumer, I think less of actors as one thing and belonging to one genre or medium. People do all kinds of things.
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I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
